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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 1/9

In the wealthiest country on earth, it is a moral abomination that any child could ever go to bed hungry. 2/9 #DemPartyPlatform #EndPoverty #HungerInAmerica

#Democrats will increase funding for food assistance programs, including #SNAP, #WIC, and school meals. We will also remove barriers that keep the formerly incarcerated from accessing food assistance.3/9 #DemPartyPlatform

Cuts to the Legal Services Corporation have imperiled access to justice in civil court for low-income defendants and litigants alike in matters concerning access to public benefits and housing, eviction proceedings, and custodial cases. 4/9 #DemPartyPlatform #LegalServicesCorp

#Democrats will significantly increase investment in the Legal Services Corporation to ensure those who cannot afford private representation can nevertheless equitably access the civil justice system and have their day in court.5/9
#DemPartyPlatform #LSC

#Democrats will provide substantially higher levels of support for programs and institutions that boost economic development in America’s most impoverished communities 6/9 #DemPartyPlatform #DemFuture

#Democrats will double funding for #CDFIs, expanding the Community Development Block Grant, increasing the number of Rural Business Investment Companies, and expanding and making permanent the New Markets Tax Credit.7/9 #DemPartyPlatform #NMTC

One in four American households are either unbanked or underbanked,putting them at risk of losing money due to exorbitant fees or usurious interest rates. #Democrats will support &encourage efforts in Congress to guarantee affordable, transparent,&trustworthy banking services 8/9

#Democrats will ensure banking services are language-accessible for low-and middle-income families, including bank accounts and real-time payment systems through the Federal Reserve and easily accessible service locations, like postal banking.9/9 #DemPartyPlatform #PostalBanking