Our economic measurement tool is faulty. We continue to bury human beings under numbers. We still talk about the economic pie as if it is a constant.

We ought to abandon the metaphor of the pie that is increasingly becoming synonymous with the race to meet the gains of material standards at the expense of the real issue - distributive and regulative justice.

We ought to adopt a new form of justice that cuts across racial lines and one that looks at the poor in their eyes and into their souls. That form of justice will meet our nation's physical, emotional, and metaphysical needs.