HAPPENING NOW:
facebook.com/CenterforRespo…
Town hall on #COVID19 financial services relief & the Black community.
Presenters: Kim Saunders, @Sifill_LDF, @ItsLisaRice, @ACHesquire, Nikitra Bailey. Moderated by @AprilDRyan and comments from @RepMaxineWaters.
"We have these positions in Washington, DC and we're going to use them. We're going to tell the story of the disproportionate number of African-American, Latinos and others who are dying...and we are going to force them to deal with the economic issues."
-@RepMaxineWaters
.@RepMaxineWaters is explaining how small business owners of color have largely been excluded from #CARESACt and paycheck protection program relief funds.
To equip #smallbiz owners with information to receive relief, LDF published a CARES Act guide: bit.ly/CARESActSmallB…
.@RepMaxineWaters calls upon all of us to "keep the pressure on" the passage of the most recent #COVID19 legislation:
"People are suffering....$3 trillion is not too much to invest in the American people."
LDF President and Director-Counsel @Sifill_LDF is lifting up the fact that the paycheck protection program bars those who have recently experienced the criminal justice system--a feature that is backwards, unjust, and must be rectified.
"Now is the time to act!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121...and not just once..make that phone call every day until we have what we need for our communities."
-LDF President and Director-Counsel @Sifill_LDF
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