The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a grim spotlight on our country’s most glaring systemic flaws. We are living in the midst of multiple intersecting crises, including record unemployment rates, a persisting climate emergency, and the disproportionate impact these crises have on communities of color. Our country is in dire need of comprehensive, intersectional, and meaningful legislation that will rebuild our economy and address the intersecting climate crisis in a way that works for everyone, not just the upper classes.

The THRIVE Agenda, a bill being introduced in the US Congress, would work to do just that. THRIVE, which stands for Transform, Heal, and Renew, by Investing in a Vibrant Economy, is comprised of the following eight pillars:

1. Creating millions of good, safe jobs with access to unions

2. Building the power of workers to fight inequality

3. Investing in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities

4. Strengthening and healing the nation-to-nation relationship with sovereign Native Nations

5. Combating environmental injustice and ensuring healthy lives for all

6. Averting climate and environmental catastrophe

7. Ensuring fairness for workers and communities affected by economic transitions

8. Reinvesting in public institutions that enable workers and communities to THRIVE

Want to see these pillars become reality? Make your voice heard by contacting your US Representative and Senators today and asking them to co-sponsor and champion the THRIVE Agenda. Our elected leaders must take meaningful action against the intersecting crises their constituents are facing. Let them know that our communities deserve real solutions.