John,

Last week, Barbara announced a groundbreaking resolution to address the roots of poverty alongside Rep. Pramila Jayapal and the Poor People’s Campaign.

As we come out of the pandemic, we simply cannot return to the status quo of before. There’s never been a better time to tackle unaffordable housing and health care, systemic racism, a lack of good-paying union jobs, and everything else contributing to massive inequities in our communities.

That’s why we need your help to build support for Barbara’s resolution at the grassroots level and show Congress we’re serious about addressing poverty at the roots.

Will you sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of Barbara’s poverty resolution?

SIGN ON

Thank you for signing on,

— Team Barbara Lee

 

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From: Barbara Lee
Date: Thu, May 27, 2021
Subject: we’re addressing poverty from the bottom up

John,

Too many people are one health care crisis, job loss, or emergency away from economic depression. In one of the richest nations in the world, it is unacceptable that 140 million people live in poverty or face such dire economic uncertainty.

Rather than prioritize yet another tax break for the rich, it’s time we introduce policies that build up from the bottom — with basic guarantees for housing, health care, water, and equitable, high-quality, diverse public education.

That’s why I’m excited to announce the rollout of a major resolution on poverty with my colleague Rep. Pramila Jayapal and with the help of Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People’s Campaign — Third Reconstruction: Fully addressing poverty and low wages from the bottom up.

John, I want you to be among the first citizen co-sponsors of our transformative resolution on poverty. Will you add your name today to show your support for our bottom-up approach to tackling poverty once and for all?

SIGN ON

Everything is connected when it comes to poverty — systemic racism, climate change, unaffordable and unattainable health care, militarism, and so much more.

That’s why our plan to lift Americans out of poverty will include expanding voting rights, creating a more humane immigration system, protecting Native and Indigenous rights, and addressing the war economy — all on top of guaranteeing adequate incomes and living wages.

Part of our proposal also means developing a federal jobs program to address racial and wealth inequality by prioritizing poor and low-wealth communities. We will leverage socially beneficial and climate-resilient jobs to build public infrastructure.

And like I’ve said from the beginning, we must align our spending and resources with the most pressing challenges facing our communities. That means redirecting inflated military spending and Pentagon budgets funding forever wars and carceral spending. Plus, making sure corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share.

It’s past time we take a bold approach to addressing and ending systemic poverty in our country — and now we need to build grassroots support for our resolution. Add your name as an early citizen co-sponsor to show your support and join us in this fight.

SIGN ON

We won’t end poverty overnight.

But with holistic solutions that are unafraid to shake up the status quo, we can begin to root out poverty at its roots and create a more equitable society for us all.

In solidarity,

Barbara Lee