The Peace Center is proud to support the ongoing work of the Poor People’s Campaign – a group dedicated to advocating alongside those most impacted by systemic racism, the war economy, poverty, and environmental injustice – to demand a transformation of the inequitable structures of our country. As we witness the transition to a new presidential administration – the Poor People’s Campaign views it as crucial 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.

The 14 policy priorities include:

  1. Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 relief that provides free testing, treatment, vaccines and direct payments to the poor
  2. Guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of any pre-existing conditions
  3. Raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour immediate
  4. Update the poverty measure
  5. Guarantee quality housing for all
  6. 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
  7. Protect and expand voting rights and civil rights
  8. Guarantee safe, quality and equitable public education, with supports for protection against re-segregation
  9. Comprehensive and just immigration reform
  10. Ensure all of the rights of indigenous peoples
  11. Enact fair taxes and targeted tax credits
  12. Use the power of executive orders
  13. Redirect the bloated Pentagon Budget towards these priorities as matters of national security
  14. Work with the PPC to establish a permanent Presidential Council to advocate for this bold agenda

To learn more about the 14 policy priorities click here.

From the organizers:

Now is the time to center the needs of those impacted by poverty and demand a policy agenda that benefits everybody.  

The priorities above are Constitutionally consistent, morally defensible and economically sane. They come out of the lives, struggles, agency and insights of the 140 million and their moral, economic and legal allies. They embody a politics of love, justice and truth that can defeat the politics of death, heal the nation and bring us down the path towards genuine democracy.