EPI has the data, research, and relationships to help our elected leaders deliver on their promise to help working people.

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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won on a platform that addresses the urgent needs of working people. Now, we must hold them accountable to deliver.

EPI has the data, research, and relationships with lawmakers and grassroots allies to help Congress and the incoming Biden-Harris administration think big. Our experts have long called for policies that would shift bargaining power back toward workers, curb accelerating income inequality, shore up the nation’s infrastructure and educational systems, protect and expand social insurance programs, and help close gender and racial wage gaps.

This year, we advocated for greater and smarter economic relief to the millions of workers and families hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis made all too clear the consequences of underinvesting in our unemployment insurance, health care, and other vital safety net programs. We championed the need for greater relief to state and local governments that administer many of these vital programs, and we pointed out where failure to act would disproportionately harm women and Black workers.

We also documented how the pandemic required some families to take on more risk than others, including how front-line workers are disproportionately Black or brown, and also less likely to have access to paid leave and quality health care.

At this critical moment, we cannot leave anyone behind. Join with us by making a year-end tax-deductible donation to EPI to elevate the policy solutions we need now to help all workers and families emerge from this pandemic with true economic security. ([link removed])

This is not the time for timidity or austerity. This is a time for courage and ambition, and we are ready to work with Congress and the incoming administration to achieve the changes our country needs. We must focus on building worker power, strengthening unions, fighting for racial justice, raising the minimum wage, and creating good jobs.

We should make the transformational changes we need to invest in America, including through clean energy and other forms of climate crisis mitigation, renewed infrastructure, public health, the care economy, the immigration system, and public education. We also need to rethink and reinvest in our safety-net programs that provide vital, life-saving support in times of crisis.

Progressive, pro-worker policies like these are not just good economics—they also enjoy wide public support.

This November, by overwhelming margins, Florida residents voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, and Colorado residents voted for a 12-week paid family and medical leave program. These are just some of the latest examples of stronger wage and labor standards embraced by states and localities around the country in recent years, many with the support of research and data provided by EPI economists and researchers.

As EPI’s work has shown, a worker-centered progressive agenda is both popular and necessary for the robust and fair economic recovery we need at this precarious moment in history. Donate to EPI to support the research powering the movement for worker justice and transformative economic change. ([link removed])

Thank you for fighting alongside us.

In solidarity,

Thea Mei Lee
President, Economic Policy Institute
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