Ideas for America I : New Hope Rises
Ideas for America 1 is a political platform
and informational reader for individual and group use.
Note: The "Twelve Chapters" page below
is from the 2007 version, and out of date. Soon the 2010
updates will be in effect, which you can see more about
on point 4 at the bottom of the page.
The Twelve Chapters
TOC here is the 2007 version; current sections are
Proposed Goals, Education, The Declining Standard
of Living, Building Community,
Immigration, The Federal Budget and Deficit,
A Simplified Tax System, Teachers, Policemen
and Refs, Fitness for Older Americans,
Stress in America, Environmental Policy,
Massachusetts:
Building the M odel
State,
and Questions and Challenges.
Chapter 11, Massachusetts: Building the Model
State, contains brief paragraphs about such
issues as the high school drop out rate, housing and
health care, and profiles of model bills or
organizations, all while applying information from other
parts of the book. It is the author's belief that most
issues will be best addressed at the state level, thus
the stated focus.
Four
Things about Ideas for America
1. The
Principal Role is to be one of the better
books out there for figuring out solutions to individual
and societal problems. The 2010 updates were
designed to be useful during the current
economic crisis.
2.
The First Update of Ideas for America 1
came after the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial
campaign, which took two of the ten or so new ideas from the 2006
gubernatorial campaign. A few of those were
key for me in better understanding the health care
situation.
3.
The Second Updates of Ideas for America 1
came in 2008, at which time the book was converted to
classroom use through the addition of Chapter 12, which
are all questions and challenges designed to help
readers figure out some problems and potential solutions
for themselves.
4.
The 2010 updates included three major changes; 1)
Goals of the Campaign and Term is changed to "Suggested
Goals," the point of which was to make it an informative
reader and tool for the general public, rather than
specific to any political race. 2) The chapter on
immigration was updated to accurately reflect all
political perspectives on the debate, including citing
some of the points of a recent work by two Boston
College professors, as well a book by Salem State
professor Avi Chomsky. 3) A new section was devoted to
responses to the economic crisis.
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