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March 18, 2024
Pressley, Manning, Unveil Dem. Women’s Caucus Executive Action Agenda for the Biden Administration
March 18, 2024
Amid Escalating Violence in Haiti, Pressley, Markey, Haiti Caucus Lead Colleagues in Urging Biden Administration to Extend TPS and Halt Deportations
March 18, 2024
Rep. Pressley Named to Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
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@RepPressley @MA_EOHLC - truly a collaborative effort from all levels of govt private & nonprofit sectors to bring 142 new affordable homes for seniors at the JJ Carroll House.
🚨Folks can now access over-the-counter birth control *in stores* in Massachusetts & across the country—no prescription required.
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We won’t stop pushing to #FreeThePill & make free, OTC birth control a reality for everyone.
To send anyone back to Haiti right now is a death sentence.
That’s why @SenMarkey, @RepYvetteClarke, @CongresswomanSC and I are calling for a halt to deportations and a re-designation of TPS for Haiti until conditions improve on the island.
These actions will help save lives.
Every child deserves a fair chance at economic opportunity—period.
I joined ACLU to discuss my #BabyBonds legislation with Senator Cory Booker & how it will help us close the racial wealth gap & break cycles of poverty.
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This Economic Policy Could Break the Poverty Cycle | American Civil Liberties Union
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The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be o...8 CommentsComment on Facebook
Just like every Fetus deserves a fair chance to be a child. An opportunity of a LIFE time .
www.cbc.ca/news/world/shoah-foundation-oct-7-testimonies-1.7143147
Democrats hate children.
Democrats create programs that promote poverty. Impeach this hate filled anti-American.
Laken Rileys chance was taken away by democrat policies.
Thank you Ayanna for your generosity and heroism to the many people in your state! ❤ www.huffpost.com/entry/food-stamp-demographics_n_6771938#:~:text=According%20to%202013%20data%20f....
Bad Energy Policies Drive Food Prices for Families Up by Increasing Costs for Farmers, Ranchers “Americans always notice when food and gas prices go up because they can see the money leaving their wallets at the pump, or know that they paid less last month for eggs at the cash register,” CEA Midwest Director Chis Ventura said. “There is a direct and immediate correlation between the two – higher energy prices mean higher farming, ranching and transportation costs that cause the price of food and groceries prices to rise, taking more money out of family pockets. It is an inescapable, iron law of consumer prices that policymakers ignore at their own – and American families’ – peril.” “Restaurants across the country are also feeling the pain of higher food costs and are either shouldering the cost burden, passing it on to the customer, or juggling both. It’s unfortunate that we keep seeing energy policy decisions untethered from the real-world financial impact on families and businesses,” Ventura said. The report found that using the USDA monthly budget recommendations for groceries, the average American family of four will pay nearly $15,656 in 2023 for food, a projected increase of 5.8%. That follows 2022, a year in which Americans spent more on food than ever before in part because of a price increase of almost 10% – or three times the 20-year average. That’s a nearly $2,500 increase in just two years. It is an especially punishing cost for the 11.4% of Americans living below the poverty line, which for a family of four is defined as earning less than $25,926. “Food costs that approach 60% percent of a family’s income cannot be sustained. Energy costs are the biggest driver of food inflation, so it’s imperative that our lawmakers realize misguided, factually unsupportable policies that make energy less affordable makes food more expensive and less abundant. CEA strongly encourages the enactment of commonsense policies that preserve all energy options and that work for our families and our farmers. Policymakers must ensure Americans can count on affordable energy and abundant food, two staples no one should have to go without.” consumerenergyalliance.org/2023/10/bad-energy-policies-drive-food-prices-for-families-up-by-incre...
PUBLIC SCHOOLS VS SCHOOL CHOICE Seven states enacted new private school choice programs in 2023 and 11 states expanded existing programs. But Illinois killed its Invest in Kids tax-credit scholarship program, ending the only help for nearly 10,000 low-income students. This week is “National School Choice Week.” Education advocates in 18 states will celebrate the start or expansion of school choice programs in 2023, dubbed “the year of universal choice.” Seven states enacted new private-school choice programs and 11 states expanded existing programs. Around 20 million students nationwide are now eligible for a private-school choice program. Not in Illinois. Here, 2023 marked the end of a scholarship program which gave nearly 10,000 low-income students the opportunity to attend a school of their choice. That denial resulted from teachers unions spreading money and threats until state lawmakers agreed to let the Invest in Kids school choice program die. Illinois lawmakers failed to save scholarship program for low-income students A majority of the students who received Invest in Kids scholarships in the 2022-2023 school year came from families living on less than 185% of the federal poverty level, or $49,025 for a family of four. Yet lawmakers ignored the needs of those 10,000 disadvantaged students and overwhelming public support for the program. Instead, they kowtowed to the wants of teachers unions, who put significant dollars behind their attack on the program. Teachers unions have invested over $21.5 million in sitting state lawmakers between 2010 and the end of October 2023. Nearly $1.5 million of that was in the five months leading up to the General Assembly’s fall session when lawmakers let the program die, Illinois State Board of Elections records show. Union bosses proved they were more concerned with protecting their monopoly on education than in supporting the needs of Illinois’ students. If they really prioritized students’ interests, they would support programs which expand educational options for low-income students, even if that means some students choose private schools. Despite opposing school choice for other families, Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates and Illinois Education Association chief lobbyist Sean Denney chose private schools for their own children. They made that choice because they can afford to do so, yet aggressively fought the ability of impoverished families to do the same through Invest in Kids. NOW WHAT DOES THE COMMINIST PARTY AND DEMOCRATS SAY?????? The winning of universal publicly funded education is one of our nation’s great achievements. Public education has provided a road out of poverty for millions of workers and their children. It has also created a literate working class with the tools to organize to end exploitation and build a system that puts people before profits. Now public education is under attack. Severe budget cuts resulting in cuts in programs, teaching and other personnel and material resources have become the norm in recent years. The attack is disguised with progressive sounding phrases such as “improving failing schools” and overcoming the “achievement gap.” But this current wave of “reform” threatens to dismantle our schools for the greater profit of finance capital and to the detriment of our children and our nation. This is the Hidden agenda of the so-called reform movement. The crisis of education is taking place within the larger crisis of capitalism. This larger crisis is characterized by global economic stagnation, the increasing power of finance capital, and the growing monopolization, or centralization of capital, here and abroad. Capitalism’s inherent drive to constantly increase its profits and ramp up the rate of exploitation has led to an assault on public institutions as monopoly finance capital tries to bend the public sector to its profit generating goals, undermining our democracy and our quality of life in the process. We in the US spend $500 billion a year on education at the federal, state and local levels. While teachers, parents and students look at our schools and too often see under funded, understaffed and struggling institutions, finance capital sees profits to be made. This privatization and corruption of our public institutions has a sharp racist edge with the most severe blows aimed at working class communities, especially communities of color. WHY do AMERICANS Vote with the Communist Party????? www.cpusa.org/party_voices/convention-discussion-the-crisis-in-public-education-causes-and-the-wa...
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