System failures · civic solutions
Fixing America
A proposed collection from the Fixing1America essay archive: institutions, household pressures, work, and civic solutions.
Publication direction
Evan's recurring argument that public systems should be judged by what they return to working people, communities and taxpayers.
Proposed focused collection around accountability and work; dated essays preserved and new commentary separated.
Evidence and scope
Preserve Evan Coffield's original voice and the source metadata. Keep later annotations dated and separate. Verify quotations, factual assertions, and authorship before book reuse; legislative proposals are not established law.
Proposed 2027 development
First collection candidate for 2027. A coherent source selection is needed before an approved outline or manuscript.
Next source work
Select a dated essay sequence and verify assertions, quotations and proposed legislative status. Preserve the current public text separately from new annotations.
Consolidation
Use Congressional Bills as supporting proposal records and Then and Now as an edition approach. Ethics Today supplies selected framing. Preserve all four catalog concepts while testing whether each deserves a separate volume.
Proposed chapter directions
Source-to-chapter planning only. These directions are not drafted or approved manuscript chapters.
The original civic argument
Introduce the original proposals and the call for working people's representation using Evan's own essays.
Source basis and open work
Whole dated posts 2008-10-12 and 2008-10-29
Verify historical claims and external attributions. Keep new commentary dated separately and do not assume the retrieved bodies reproduce their first editions.
What happened to the value of work
Track the wage and cost-of-living argument across two source dates.
Source basis and open work
Whole dated posts 2017-06-18 and 2019-03-26
Rebuild cited wage and inflation comparisons from defined primary datasets. Preserve the historical essay without silently inserting modern figures.
The contractor and the intermediary
Develop a focused section on agency incentives, bill-rate transparency, professional mobility and the value delivered by technical workers.
Source basis and open work
Contracting report sections II and III and dated economic renewal essays
- Contracting in America – The Untold Reality
- Fixing One America: A Blueprint for Economic Renewal
- Fixing America: The Hidden Cost of Labor Inequity
The source survey percentage, markup table and compensation multipliers need traceable evidence. Separate firsthand experience from general population claims.
Turning an argument into a proposal
Pair a selected essay with its legislative proposal and explain intended effects in an annotation.
Source basis and open work
CAFCRA public draft and robot-tax essay; 0396 and 0145 are text-equivalent cross-posts
- Contractor and Agency Fair Compensation and Rights Act (CAFCRA)
- Tax the Machines: Why Every Robot Should Pay Taxes
- Tax the Machines: Why Every Robot Should Pay Taxes
Use one robot-tax text in the collection. Verify legislative and tax terminology; these records establish author proposals, not enactment.
The cost of public choices
Use the recent essays to examine public-resource choices, accountability and Evan's concern for the human consequences of policy.
Source basis and open work
Whole dated posts 2026-09-22
- When Political Battles Consume Public Resources, Who Pays the Price?
- The Empty Victory: What Have You Won If You Destroy the Country?
Freeze dated citations for legal trackers and public statistics. Preserve the source's distinction between comparative opportunity cost and money actually spent.
Then and now
Close with a comparison of recurring principles, changed assumptions and remaining questions.
Source basis and open work
Selected historical and recent essays with new dated annotations
- Proposals to Fix America
- Fixing One America: A Blueprint for Economic Renewal
- When Political Battles Consume Public Resources, Who Pays the Price?
Annotations must be visibly separate. A new author reflection is deferred to the manuscript phase; do not invent Evan's revised views.
Supporting research directions
Source & research basis
Working source leads, retained under their original titles. Selection, references, and authorship review remain part of publication development.
- Proposals to Fix America
- Middle-Class Lobbyists Needed
- Wages Have Been Stagnant For 40 Years
- Wage Reality - No COLA for 30+ Years
- Contracting in America – The Untold Reality
- Contractor and Agency Fair Compensation and Rights Act (CAFCRA)
- Fixing One America: A Blueprint for Economic Renewal
- Tax the Machines: Why Every Robot Should Pay Taxes
- When Political Battles Consume Public Resources, Who Pays the Price?
- The Empty Victory: What Have You Won If You Destroy the Country?