Moral Monday: Health Care for All and Covid Relief with $15/hr

Start: 2021-02-22 15:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

This is a virtual event

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WE DEMAND: Healthcare for All, $15/hour for All, Vaccination Equity, Immediate Medicaid Expansion and Comprehensive Covid relief!

For three weeks of Moral Mondays, we’ve fought for $15/hour minimum wage, the elimination of the subminimum 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 quality 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 Medicaid expansion in every state, 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!

We need everyone to join us at 3 p.m. ET Monday, Feb. 22 at fb.com/anewppc and poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream, where we'll have live reports from each location and continue a massive call-in and letter writing campaign to elected officials' offices.

The digital event will be captioned and ASL interpreted.


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