For nearly all Indians but especially for Dalits, a government job, even a low-level one, was the surest ticket out of poverty, guaranteeing education, housing, a salary and a pension.
They are balancing the national budget in a fair way; guaranteed education funding "from cradle to college"; an increase to £12,500 in the personal tax allowance; £8bn extra for the NHS and five green laws to protect the environment.
Ask them if they are willing to be taxed in order to have roads, courts, health care, guaranteed education for their children through college, and a safe retirement, and the answer is different.
"The government wants to leave it up to schools whether they teach children about relationships, but I can't understand why in schools children will be guaranteed education about finance, but not about consent," she said.
Using Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 State of the Union address as a starting point, Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, argues for a second Bill of Rights -- guaranteeing education, employment, housing and medical care -- as a much-needed extension of the American social contract.
Other measures in the Lib Dems' 80-page document include 15 hours of free childcare for every two-year-old in England, a "Daddy month" of paternity leave and guaranteed education spending.
But he does oppose all hierarchical oppression; argue that all people in society have capacities for self-realization, and must receive the opportunity to fulfill them; and insist that government must intervene to ensure that they do receive it, e.g. by guaranteeing education and a minimum standard of living for the poor.
The Cities for Children conference explored ways that municipal authorities can develop child-friendly cities, where young people are guaranteed education, civic opportunity and social inclusion.
Growing numbers of teenagers are being turned away from training programmes designed to get them into work, despite the government's budget guarantee of education or training for all 16- to 18-year-olds.
More focus needs to be placed on teacher training to guarantee quality education for the increasing number of students, and the absence of female teachers is affecting retention rates – particularly for girls.
"The guarantee of education is meaningless without satisfactory learning.
