In forty-four essays, Buying America Back presents a new vision for our nation in the transformed world of the 1990s. The frayed and diverse strands of our society are woven back together by people who have spent their lives addressing our most serious social and economic problems.What are America's real choices? Buying America Back expands the context of the debate and provides viable alternatives which transform the very nature of this vital question.From this debate emerges a new agenda for America. Buying America Back explains the connection between jobs and free trade policies, military spending and the breakdown of the cities, unemployment and soaring health care costs, holes in the ozone layer and world trade.Buying America Back not only analyzes contemporary economic problems, but provides a forum for their solutions. The writers presented here have a wealth of experience. They show how the American economy can be made strong and whole, and out of its strength can again become sensitive to the needs of all its people. Read Less