Thread by @RevDrBarber

WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign Policy Teach-In | What’s in the Build Back Better Plan, What’s Not & What’s Next? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We’re going to fight every day, and we’re going to LIVE trying!

Kristen Olsen from West Virginia says, “I’m a mother. I’m a teacher. And I’m the cost of cutting the Build Back Better plan.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign #BuildBackBetter

Linnel Fall with the @Maryland_PPC, shares her powerful personal testimony and reminds us why paid medical leave is so important for all Americans: “We, the people, need relief!” #BuildBackBetter #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Rebekah Entralgo @Inequalityorg and @IPS_DC lays out the core aspects of what’s in the #BuildBackBetter plan and how it will help millions of families, women, children, and the elderly. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Heidi Sheirholz, President of the @EconomicPolicy Institute, explains the worker protections that are built into the #BuildBackBetter plan. There are not a lot, but what’s in the plan is still important and significant: “It’s not a jobs bill, but it will create 3.5 million jobs!”

Note: That’s 3.5 million jobs per year for the first 5 years, according to @HShierholz @EconomicPolicy.

.@ShaillyBarners @Kairos_Center explains how the #BuildBackBetter agenda will help make Medicaid available to millions more Americans who currently fall into the gaps. #PoorPeoplesCampaign

.@SarahDAnderson1 from @IPS_DC: “The #BuildBackBetter Act will be fully paid for by raising taxes on the very wealthy and large, very profitable corporations. And it will not add a dime to the deficit.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign

.@SarahDAnderson1 @IPS_DC on how the #BuildBackBetter Act will lower the cost of prescription drugs: “This is really a credit to the #PoorPeoplesCampaign and others who have pushing so hard for this.”

.@HShierholz @EconomicPolicy: “This is a really important piece of legislation, and it’s still just a first step. ... We need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour!” #BuildBackBetter #PoorPeoplesCampaign #FightFor15

.@RebekahEntralgo @Inequalityorg @IPS_DC: “We could’ve afforded the $3.5 trillion plan, and we must keep calling for more!” #BuildBackBetter #PoorPeoplesCampaign

.@SarahDAnderson1 @IPS_DC: “It’s disappointing that the House version of the bill doesn’t do more to tax billionaires who have increased their personal wealth during the pandemic by the trillions.” #BuildBackBetter #PoorPeoplesCampaign

.@HShierholz @EconomicPolicy: “When you get money into the hands of poor and middle-class people, they have no choice but to spend it on necessities. And that’s really great for the economy.” #BuildBackBetter #PoorPeoplesCampaign

“They’re not just the right thing to do morally, but it’s excellent economically.” —Heidi Shierholz, President of the @EconomicPolicy Institute on the investments in the #BuildBackBetter Act