NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - A national coalition to address the challenges of the working poor released a sweeping legislative platform in a three-hour virtual rally Saturday, including proposals to address mass incarceration, health care and wealth inequality.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - A national coalition to address the challenges of the working poor released a sweeping legislative platform in a three-hour virtual rally Saturday, including proposals to address mass incarceration, health care and wealth inequality.
"We are here today to say together, 'It's time to choose life, America,'" Barber said at the end of the rally, which was streamed online."It's time for us to do it together. It's time for a moral revolution of values." The virtual rally was held on the same day that President Donald Trump, seen widely as divisive on issues of race and inequality, planned to return to the campaign trail with a political rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The policy platform released on Saturday was divided into five parts: justice and systemic racism, health, promoting people's general welfare, ensuring employment opportunities and workers' rights, and directing spending away from the military. There also are proposals to rewrite the formula for determining how social welfare programs like cash assistance and Social Security are allocated, to create a federal jobs program to help people acquire skills and employment, and to give"baby bonds" to all newborns to help close the racial wealth gap.
The rally featured Al Gore, the former vice president turned climate activist, who said the country was at a crossroads.
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