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Here's a thread of everything Trump, McConnell, and Senate Republicans should be doing to help Americans get through this pandemic -

INSTEAD of jamming through a Supreme Court nomination.
Rent relief.

Families are being kicked out of their homes during a pandemic.

Rent relief has been sitting on McConnell's desk for 5 months. #RentReliefNow
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More stimulus checks.

In eight months, Americans have received just one $1,200 check.

There should be quarterly, $2,000 checks.
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Thread: The #unemployment rate is very high & millions report that their households did not get enough to eat or that they are behind in paying the rent.

We are tracking this hardship in our new special series. #RentReliefNow #BoostSNAPNow

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What we know. People are:

🍎 Having difficulty getting enough food
🏠 Unable to pay rent or mortgage
🏭 Unemployment is high
🧒 There are millions of kids facing hardship
📈 And overall hardship is trending upward

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🍎 About 29M adults — 12.1% of all adults — reported that their household sometimes or often didn’t have enough to eat in the last 7 days. That translates to an estimated 9-17M kids who live in a family in which the kids were not eating enough because the they couldn’t afford it. ImageImage
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Despite Trump’s claims, his EO doesn't extend the federal ban on evictions or provide more funds to tenants to cover lost rent payments. #RentReliefNow

In fact, it doesn’t do anything that immediately helps people pay their rent & avoid evictions.

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However, Trump Admin officials are recklessly claiming that renters are now protected from evictions.

That must be particularly concerning for the likely millions of people struggling to pay rent in August. #RentReliefNow

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The nation faces serious rental #housing problems that this executive order doesn’t solve.

Instead, policymakers should take a comprehensive approach to address them adequately in the next #COVIDRelief bill. #RentReliefNow

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Trump’s expected executive order to extend the #CARESAct’s federal ban on evictions very likely will prove woefully inadequate to help people experiencing #homelessness or the millions of renters struggling to pay rent. #RentReliefNow

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Eviction moratoriums alone do not help renters pay the bills. Renters continue to accumulate rent debt & struggle to pay for utilities, food, & other necessities. #RentReliefNow

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The nation is facing serious rental housing problems that an executive order won’t solve. Instead, policy makers should take a comprehensive approach to address them adequately in the next #COVIDRelief bill.

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1/ I get the characterization of remote learning as a win.

It makes sense only bc our country has allowed politicians to turn the safety & mortality of human beings into a political contest. #COVID19 #SafeReopening
2/ Students, community groups, parents, and @CTULocal1 organized to force the mayor into making the best decision.

We shouldn’t have had to make her make that decision. An #ERSB should hv made the decision already. But, this is Chicago. #MakeItMakeSense
3/ Honestly, once #Trump said re-open schools, the decision was obvious. But, #CPS and #MLL 🤷🏾‍♀️

Victory lap? Nah. Imma pass. We still hv an extraordinary amount of work before us. #RemoteLearning
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NEW in the NYT from @BharatRamamurti and me: unless Congress acts, millions will take a paycut as they return to work. Our Fair Wage Guarantee would parlay the $600 UI boost into a wage hike, increasing demand and helping low-wage workers most. 1/9 nytimes.com/2020/07/05/opi…
The $600 has been a lifeline for unemployed Americans during the pandemic. It’s kept poverty rates from spiking and the bottom from falling out of our economy. Because many laid-off workers have low wages, 68% of unemployed workers have actually seen their incomes increase. 2/9
The UI boost expires this month & Congress must #savethe600. [Expiring eviction moratoria should also be extended. We need #RentReliefNow.]

But we shouldn’t miss the opportunity to raise wages & capture the macroeconomic benefits of the $600 on the other side too. 3/9
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