Third Reconstruction: Addressing Poverty and Low Wages from the Bottom Up
This U.S. House resolution aims to comprehensively tackle poverty and low wages affecting millions of Americans. It proposes policy changes to improve citizens' quality of life by ensuring access to fundamental economic rights like thriving wages, housing, healthcare, and education. The goal is to build a more equitable and resilient economy that serves everyone, not just a few.
Key points
Updating the poverty measure and expanding social welfare programs, including permanent cash assistance and guaranteed adequate incomes.
Raising the minimum wage to a living wage and guaranteeing the right to form and join unions for all workers.
Implementing a federal jobs guarantee, investing in green industries, public health, education, and infrastructure.
Ensuring safe and affordable housing for all, including rent control, ending evictions, and expanding public housing.
Guaranteeing universal access to clean water, sanitation, affordable childcare, and free higher education.
Enacting a universal single-payer national healthcare program and providing relief from student, housing, and medical debt.
Expanding and protecting voting rights, including making Election Day a national holiday and modernizing voter registration.
Eliminating persistent racial inequities in education, healthcare, employment, and the justice system, including through reparations commissions.
Protecting constitutional rights of assembly and free speech, and enacting comprehensive and just immigration reform.
Transforming the economy towards green energy, demilitarizing foreign policy and policing, and enacting fair taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
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