WE DEMAND: Healthcare for All, $15/hour for All, Vaccination Equity, and Comprehensive COVID relief!

On Monday, February 22, the NYC Poor People's Campaign will join with our partners at One Fair Wage for a speakout at Sen. Chuck Schumer's office to demand just and comprehensive COVID relief including a $15/hour minimum wage and universal healthcare for all.

What: Moral Monday for Just Covid Relief and Universal Healthcare

When: 2:30pm ET

Location:
Sen. Chuck Schumer's Office
780 3rd Ave
New York, NY 10017

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For three weeks of Moral Mondays, we’ve fought for $15/hour minimum wage, the elimination of the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, union rights for all, and full and just COVID relief. As we have seen over the past 11 months, these issues are deeply connected. The crisis of poverty and low wages is directly connected to the injustices in our healthcare system. We know that 87 million people were uninsured or underinsured before the pandemic and millions have lost their healthcare in the worst public health crisis in a century. In the richest nation in history, there is no excuse for denying the human rights of living wages, an adequate standard of living, and health care.

We’ll go live to the state offices of US Senators across the nation to hear directly from poor and low-income people and moral leaders about the need $15/hour for all workers, immediate passage of universal healthcare legislation, expanded funding for state budgets, ramping up vaccinations while tracking race and class to ensure equity in distribution, supporting public schools for safe re-opening and more.

It has been nearly one year that we have been suffering in this pandemic, and its impacts have fallen disproportionately on the poor and Black, Brown and Indigenous people. We need comprehensive and just relief now!

Click here to see the Poor People’s Campaign's full policy priorities for the first 100 days.

If you can't make it in person, click here to RSVP for the virtual online event.