Expressing the moral responsibility of Congress to end adult and child poverty in the United States.

acknowledges that budgets are moral documents that reflect our values as a Nation;

acknowledges that child poverty robs our Nation of a child’s full potential and prevents millions of children from reaching healthy development and an economically secure future;

supports passing policy provisions to reduce adult and child poverty, racial disparities, income and wealth inequality, and increase of opportunity for all;

supports policies to help reduce child poverty by increasing wages for working families, improving tax credits to ensure more low-income children and families benefit, expanding subsidized jobs with special attention to the needs of young adults disconnected from school and work, and providing access to quality, reliable childcare;

encourages the Federal Government, States, and cities to enact robust antipoverty policies and to create new, innovative solutions to eliminate poverty;

acknowledges that too few resources have been allocated by the Federal Government to help end poverty for children and families;

acknowledges that poverty was created and sustained by humans, including policymakers, and that we can choose to end it;

affirms that ending poverty, especially for our Nation’s children, is a moral and economic imperative;

affirms immigration status is not a means to deny basic need programs;

supports increased funding for and strengthening of basic need programs like the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and housing assistance especially during the COVID–19 pandemic;

supports comprehensive health care that should be available and affordable to everyone in the United States during the COVID–19 pandemic;

supports the strengthening of robust unemployment insurance and paid leave policies to protect workers, especially during the COVID–19 pandemic;

reaffirms that a criminal record is no longer a life sentence to poverty for tens of millions of justice-involved individuals and their families, and supports automatically clearing criminal records once a person has completed the sentence imposed; and

accepts climate change as an accelerator towards poverty and a threat to shared prosperity that demands investment in a clean energy transition to help create jobs.