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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This section is called: Ending Poverty Only one party has a specific plan for ending the scourge of poverty for poor and #WorkingAmericans..the other has a loyalty oath to a corrupt billionaire 1/16
#Democrats remain committed to ending poverty and enabling all Americans to live up to their God-given potential. 2/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty
#Democrats recognize that the official poverty rate, as measured &communicated by the federal gov, fails to capture critical needs like housing,education,health care,transportation,energy &other necessities,therefore understates the true share of Americans living in poverty. 3/10
#Democrats will support the 10-20-30 funding approach, to direct at least 10 percent of federal funding to communities where 20 percent or more of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years or longer. 4/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty
Directing more federal investment to the communities most in need will help create jobs; improve and expand housing; modernize and expand transportation, clean water, wastewater, energy, and broadband infrastructure; and promote shared prosperity. 5/10 #DemPartyPlatform
#Democrats will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and guarantee equal pay for women, two measures that in combination will pull millions of families out of poverty. 6/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty #RaiseTheWage
#Democrats will make it easier for working families to benefit from targeted tax breaks, including the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, which too often go unclaimed by the lowest-income tax filers. 7/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty
#Democrats will significantly expand affordable housing and build new public housing for the first time since the 1990s, and guarantee Section 8 benefits to all who qualify—all of which will help reduce housing costs and increase housing availability for low-income families. 8/10
#Democrats believe health care is a human right. We will incentivize states to expand #Medicaid and enroll low-income people who do not otherwise have health insurance in a new, high-quality public option without premiums. 9/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty
#Democrats will double investments in community health centers and rural health centers, and expand mobile health units, to make it easier for low-income people to access health care.10/10 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty #publichealth

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