This is the season for stateswomen and statesmen. This is not the time for partisanship, because we have an attack on our democracy going on, an attack on the infrastructure of our daily lives (wages & healthcare), and the infrastructure of our roads, bridges, and technology.
As we told @SpeakerPelosi back in August, #HoldTheLine! We need all of this legislation, not just some of it.
Heidi Shierholz from the @EconomicPolicy Institute making it plain: Raising the federal minimum wage does not create job loss. It’s a myth. We must shift the narrative in this country!
.@HShierholz@EconomicPolicy making the strong argument now against work requirements to qualify for federal benefits like the child tax credit. Why should support for keeping children out of poverty be held hostage to their parents’ ability to find a job?
.@Caitlin0Swain reminding us now that we have a narrow window of time to protect the infrastructure of our democracy. Now is the time! We can do all of it. We must do all of it. #HoldTheLine
SAVE THE DATE: June 18, 2022 — the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington
We will have an RSVP sign-up for ready soon, but for now, put it on your calendar and plan to join us in Washington, DC! #PoorPeoplesCampaign#ThirdReconstruction
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“Moderate” Democrats say the more money cut from the BBB plan, the more people left out, the more people that don’t get Medicare or free community college or $15/hr living wage, WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS?
It makes me think about how the so-called “moderate” position in politics is often a polite euphemism for inaction. Remember what Dr. King wrote from the Birmingham jail: “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice;
Poor and low-income people accounted for more than a third of all voters overall in the 2020 presidential election, and their turnout was especially strong in tight battleground states, according to a study @UniteThePoor released today.
The study, titled “Waking the Sleeping Giant: Low-Income Voters and the 2020 Elections” also shows that of the 168 million people who voted in 2020, 59 million — 35% — were poor or low-income, meaning they have an estimated annual income of less than $50,000.
The 2020 presidential elections saw the highest voter turnout in U.S. election history, including among low-income voters.
As Congress argues about the cost of the BBB plan, the #PoorPeoplesCampaign meets today w/ U.S. House & White House representatives, then holds a news conference at 9:30am ET to say the fight should focus on the ppl whose lives depend on passing this plan. breachrepairers.org/livestream
Faith leaders and economists will stand with essential, low-wage women representing the 140 million people who were poor or low-income before COVID-19 at a news conference at 9:30 a.m. ET on the House side of the U.S. Capitol.
Before the news conference, the delegation is meeting with members of Congress and staffers, along with Josh Dickson and Carissa Joy Smith, senior advisers from the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Manchin is so slick, he is silly. Paying people a living wage, providing health care, education, and childcare for working low-wage mothers is not “entitlement.” It’s justice. It’s promoting the general welfare. It’s acting like Jesus.
And how much time does Manchin want? How about as much time as it took for him to block living wages—about five minutes?
I wish reporters would push him and expose the faces and livelihoods that would be hurt by his cuts.
Stop talking about $3.7 trillion or $2 trillion. $3.7T over 10 years is not a large number at all. What is huge is the number of Americans who will be hurt even more after being devastated already by COVID.
I wish someone would tell this brother the truth about the Freedom To Vote Act that Manchin is trying to push: All of the good parts are from John Lewis. The bad parts that we have to amend are from the Republican voter suppressionists.
Secondly, Manchin hasn’t done a thing, because he won’t end the filibuster to pass it.
And he’s blocking the Build Back Better plan in ways that are going to hurt Black people—your congregants—& other poor & low-wealth people around the country but especially in West Virginia.
Black preachers, don’t let this man use you. He’s been meeting with you, lying to you. Ask him to meet you with people in the room who know policy. I bet he won’t do it.
West Virginia preachers, don’t be fooled and don’t sell your birthright.