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John,
The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the already existing racial, health, and economic inequities in our country. Now, we need an equitable recovery.
As the White House and Congress begin to look ahead to the next big pandemic response legislation―we need to ensure it includes a long-term vision not only focused on physical infrastructure and climate change, but one that invests in children and lifts them out of poverty, supports workers and creates good jobs, and expands access to health care, affordable housing, and paid leave.
U.S. billionaires gained $1.3 trillion during the first 11 months of the pandemic, a 44 percent increase. We can afford equitable policies when the wealthy pay their fair share, and we must fight for them. In fact, a lasting recovery that reaches everyone depends on it.
Chip in to CHN today to address poverty, inequality and the racial wealth gap―and advance our shared agenda to meet human needs.
We know our nation’s progress depends on equal rights and opportunities for all, protected and advanced by a strong and just federal government.
Now that we have enacted the $1.9 trillion COVID-aid package, we must keep the momentum going. We must build the support we need to go even bigger on human needs.
Our efforts can ensure millions more people throughout our country can receive Medicaid, make healthcare more affordable for older Americans and people with disabilities, expand rural health and mental health services, and fight the opioid epidemic.
We can also repair our crumbling infrastructure and build affordable housing; build broadband access throughout each state―connecting students to classrooms and rural communities with the world; create millions of good-paying jobs, and transform our economy away from fossil fuels and toward a green energy economy.
Can you chip in $5 or more today to demand Congress fight for human needs priorities?
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Congress took historic and effective steps to rescue our economy from a catastrophic fall. Now, it is clear that building a lasting economic recovery will depend on the foundation of a strong and responsive human infrastructure.
Even with this new COVID relief law, people working in low-wage jobs will continue to struggle to make ends meet. Tens of millions of people will still lack adequate health coverage. And we need to make the childhood poverty measures recently passed permanent, to look beyond the pandemic and ensure current and future generations not only survive, but thrive.
We must keep fighting, together. Thank you for all you do to fight for a future that includes all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
P.S. With the passage of the American Rescue Plan, additional much-needed immediate help for the COVID-19 pandemic recovery is on the way. Now President Biden is proposing an additional package of investments on infrastructure and human needs. Click here to RSVP to join CHN and Sharon Parrott, the new president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, next Tuesday, April 6th from 3 - 3:30pm ET for a conversation about how we can and must seize the opportunity to build a sustainable recovery by addressing the already existing racial, health, and economic inequities that the pandemic has deepened.
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