This chapter confronts the Supreme Court’s rejection of socio-economic rights. In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that education is not a right protected by the Constitution and the result has been vast inequities in U.S. education systems that inflict deep harm on poorer and marginalized children. Education is indeed a human right, and equal education is also required by the human right to equality. The Supreme Court has also rejected other social and economic rights and this has allowed the deconstruction of safety nets designed to help children in poorer families. Children under five years old are at the highest risk of eviction in the United States. Again, in these cases the Court insists that these results are required by the very nature of the Constitution and who Americans are as a people. Human rights, on the other hand, protect basic social and economic rights and through interviews and case studies I demonstrate the clear advantages of embracing these principles.