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WASHINGTON (PAI) The New Poor People’s Campaign and congressional progressives unveiled a “Third Reconstruction” measure to set poverty eradication as a top U.S. goal, plus a year-long drive to elevate the cause to the top of the national agenda.
One way to do so, their measure declares, is to guarantee and strengthen the right to organize and to join unions.
The resolution, discussed at a May 20 press conference, will kick-start the drive on May 23. It will culminate in a mass rally in D.C. in June 2022, assuming the coronavirus pandemic has been sufficiently beaten to allow such large crowds.
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Bishop William Barber, founder of the Poor People’s Campaign and Moral Mondays, joined poor and low-income women Monday in a renewed call for Congress to enact a $15/hour minimum wage for all workers.
Kris Kincaid, a former restaurant worker from West Virginia, criticized Senator Joe Manchin for blocking efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour in the $1.9 Trillion COVID relief bill that passed the Senate last Saturday.
“Low wage workers, we can’t make ends meet,” said Kincaid.”If we can pay rent, then we can’t afford groceries.”
Kincaid said she would use the latest round of stimulus to pay a month’s worth of rent and some overdue bills. Any amount left over would help feed others in her community who will not receive a relief payment from the government.