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DESCRIPTION:The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has 
 released \n14 Policy Priorities for the First 100 Days, bold prescriptions 
 to heal the nation.\n\nToday, following a meeting with the domestic policy 
 team of the Biden-Harris transition team, we will hold a press conference 
 that you can watch live at 3:45pm ET / 12:45pm PT. \n\nFacebook livestream 
 here: https://www.facebook.com/anewppc/\n\nForward together, not one step 
 back!\n_______________________________________________________________\n\nPPC 
 & THE FIRST 100 DAYS\n\n14 Priorities for the First 100 Days: The PPC Sends 
 New Demands to 
 Washington\n\nhttps://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/policy-and-legislative-priorities/\n\nOn 
 December 1, The Poor People's Campaign released a set of 14 policy and 
 legislative priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris 
 administration and 117th Congress. Priorities include comprehensive and 
 just COVID-19 relief, health care for all, a federal jobs program and much 
 more.\n\nWhen president-elect Biden joined the September 14 Moral Monday 
 Mass Assembly, he told \n1 million-plus viewers that under his presidency, 
 “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.”\n\nNow we have 
 the opportunity to hold him accountable. The Poor People's Campaign plan is 
 based on our Jubilee platform, and we will be using it to organize around 
 the policy priorities of poor, low-income and impacted people, and to build 
 power in our communities.\n\nOn behalf of the 140 million poor and 
 low-income people in the country, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National 
 Call for Moral Revival – and our 45 state coordinating committees, 
 thousands of religious leaders, scholars, economists, advocates and 
 hundreds of supporting organizations – insists that the following 
 policies from the Poor People’s Jubilee Platform take precedence during 
 the first 50-100 days of the new administration and 117th Congress.\n\nThe 
 14 policy priorities include:\n\n1. Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 
 relief that provides free testing, treatment, vaccines and direct payments 
 to the poor\n2. Guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of any 
 pre-existing conditions\n3. Raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour 
 immediately\n4. Update the poverty measure\n5. Guarantee quality housing 
 for all\n6. 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\n7. Protect and expand voting rights and civil rights\n8. 
 Guarantee safe, quality and equitable public education, with supports for 
 protection against re-segregation\n9. Comprehensive and just immigration 
 reform\n10. Ensure all of the rights of indigenous peoples\n11. Enact fair 
 taxes and targeted tax credits\n12. Use the power of executive orders\n13. 
 Redirect the bloated Pentagon Budget towards these priorities as matters of 
 national security\n14. Work with the PPC to establish a permanent 
 Presidential Council to advocate for this bold agenda\n\nWatch 
 President-elect Biden's interview statement to the Poor People's Campaign 
 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfq0xJRVqA&feature=youtu.be\n\nWatch 
 Vice President-elect Harris's town hall statement to the Poor People's 
 Campaign here: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZA8QZwkkY&feature=youtu.be\n_______________________________________________________________\n\nABOUT: 
 The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival 
 \n\nhttps://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/our-principles/\n\nThe PPC is 
 building a movement to overcome systemic racism, poverty, ecological 
 devastation and the war economy.  We are organizing the bring about change 
 for and by the over \n140 million poor and low-income people in the 
 country, a statistic that is sharply growing during COVID-19. Everybody's 
 got a right to live!\n\nThe PPC dose its work in a non-partisan way—no 
 elected officials or candidates get the stage or serve on the State 
 Organizing Committee of the Campaign. This is not about left and right, 
 Democrat or Republican, but about right and 
 wrong.\n_______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/17/18838968.php
SUMMARY:Poor People's Campaign Press Conference: 14 Priorities for the First 100 Days
LOCATION:Online via livestream
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/17/18838968.php
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