FDR Economic bill of rights revisited

The economy has been in recession since last December, food banks are struggling and the pain is spreading.

It fell to Mary Nelson, president emeritus of Bethel New Life, a faith-based community development corporation on the west side of Chicago, to rediscover Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 Economic Bill of Rights. They include:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job.
• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation.
• The right of every family to a decent home.
• The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.
• The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment.
• The right to a good education.

Relatively modest, altogether worthy, still-unachieved goals of 64 years' vintage.

Update

Unmet goals receded a bit more from our grasp as the Dow plunged 700 points on news of the ongoing and likely prolonged recession.

Taking a mental health break to watch the movie What Would Jesus Buy?