On December 7, The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, released a set of 14 policy and legislative priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. The 14 policies priorities are:
- Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 relief that provides free testing, treatment, vaccines and direct payments to the poor
- Guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of any pre-existing conditions
- Raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour immediate
- Update the poverty measure
- Guarantee quality housing for all
- Enact a federal jobs program to build up investments, infrastructure, public institutions, climate resilience, energy efficiency and socially beneficial industries and jobs in poor and low-income communities
- Protect and expand voting rights and civil rights
- Guarantee safe, quality and equitable public education, with supports for protection against re-segregation
- Comprehensive and just immigration reform
- Ensure all of the rights of indigenous peoples
- Enact fair taxes and targeted tax credits
- Use the power of executive orders
- Redirect the bloated Pentagon Budget towards these priorities as matters of national security
- Work with the PPC to establish a permanent Presidential Council to advocate for this bold agenda
Sign on now to add your support to these 14 priorities for the healing of the nation.
When President-elect Biden joined the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Monday Mass Assembly on the voting power of poor and low-income people on Sept. 14, in front of over 1 million viewers, he vowed that, “ending poverty will not just be an aspiration, it will be a theory of change — to build a new economy that includes everyone, where we reward hard work, we care for the most vulnerable among us, we release the potential of all our children, and protect the planet.”
Recently, the Poor People’s Campaign has been in conversation with members of the Biden-Harris transition team about a round table with poor and low-income, moral leaders and key public health, economic and legal advisers to follow up on the new administration’s commitments to addressing poverty and systemic racism made in the election season and to discuss the Poor People’s Campaign policy priorities for the first 100 days.
BACKGROUND: More than 140 million poor and low-income people live in the United States, or 43% of the country’s population, and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, with organizing committees in 45 states, is building a moral fusion movement to address the five interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism and a distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. The 14 Policy Priorities for the First 100 Days are drawn from the comprehensive Poor People’s Campaign Jubilee Platform.
UFPJ is proud to be a national mobilizing partner with the Poor People’s Campaign.
