[ [link removed] ]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress
“Imagine you go into a store, and you see a shirt you’d like to purchase.
You ask the shopkeeper how much it is, and they say it’s $5. You say, I
don’t have $5, I have $1. Can you sell it to me for $1?
Of course the shopkeeper says, no, I’m sorry but I can’t sell that shirt
for less than $5. That $5 helps cover my basic essentials to continue
running my business.
Do we say that there’s a t-shirt shortage? No. Then why do we treat wages
like that? Why are we calling this a ‘labor shortage’? I think it is a
dignified job shortage.”
That’s how
Alexandria started her latest Instagram stories series to help break down
some of the false “labor shortage” claims that corporate politicians are
using to further whittle down the Build Back Better Act.
Then she hit us with some hard facts about the so-called “labor shortage”:
The sectors hardest hit by this “labor shortage” are those that have
historically relied on women, people of color, and low-income workers.
These include retail, food service, caregiving, teaching, and home health
care aids.
We are in the midst of a pandemic that has claimed the lives of over
700,000 Americans and conservatives act like that has nothing to do with
the shortage of people that are available to work. On top of that, women,
especially, have been pushed out of the workforce by the thousands.
This is what happens when we don’t have health care or childcare. And the
irony is that a lot of the folks claiming a “labor shortage” are the same
ones claiming that investing in universal pre-k, childcare, and paid leave
is irresponsible for the economy.
What’s irresponsible is leaving our communities to pick up the pieces of
our economy without the proper support, and then blaming them for not
working low-wage jobs with bad benefits.
We need a real investment in our care economy and human
infrastructure. And
Alexandria is fighting right now to get these transformative programs and
policies included and passed in the Build Back Better Act.
[ [link removed] ]But it will take a movement so large and powerful to win the wages and
protections that workers deserve. If you want to help grow this movement
and believe it’s time to pass transformative investments in our human
infrastructure, can you make a $3 investment in our
movement now?
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Right now is our biggest opportunity to make transformative investments in
our human infrastructure. We can accomplish this and we must.
Thank you for your support today,
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