Bill > HRes540

This resolution supports the Equity or Else quality-of-life platform, a comprehensive framework developed through extensive community engagement to address systemic racial and economic inequities. The resolution recognizes that fundamental societal institutions like education, healthcare, housing, food systems, and clothing have been systematically undermined for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and working-class communities through systemic racism. It calls on the House of Representatives to adopt a "zero tolerance" approach to racial inequity by supporting policy solutions that include investing in Black farmers, funding safety net hospitals, implementing Medicare for All, improving public schools, creating youth job opportunities, supporting rent control, eliminating lead pipes, providing job training for formerly incarcerated individuals, and expanding immigrant citizenship pathways. The resolution explicitly states that racial inequity can only be addressed by fundamentally changing existing belief systems in institutions and policies, and it commits the House to prioritizing and listening to impacted communities while crafting transformative legislation. Notably, the resolution dramatically concludes that "without equity there is fascism," underscoring the critical importance of addressing systemic inequalities.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/540/all-info