Signers write Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer to prioritize a proven solution to help overwhelmed front-line workers, jumpstart the economy and accelerate the pace of vaccinations: the passage of $1 trillion in emergency funding for states, cities, towns and schools.
We need $1 trillion in funding – unrestricted funding, free of any poison pills, conditions or limitations that undermine working people and an increase in the federal Medicaid match (FMAP) – not just to get back to normal, but to build back better. We need this level of investment to restore our communities’ ability to handle crises and respond to emergencies, capacity that has been vastly diminished since the austerity measures imposed during the Great Recession about a dozen years ago.
A. Philip Randolph Institute
AFL-CIO
African American Ministers in Action
Alliance for Quality Education
Alliance for Retired Americans
American Federation of School Administrators
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers
American Library Association (ALA)
American School Counselor Association
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Americans for Tax Fairness
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents
California After School Network
Center for American Progress (CAP)
Clearinghouse on Women's Issues
Coalition on Human Needs
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Council of Administrators of Special Education
Democratic Municipal Officials
Democrats for Education Reform
EDGE Consulting Partners
Every Texan
Feminist Majority Foundation
For Our Future Action Fund
Girls Inc.
Health Care for America Now
Health Care Voter
In the Public Interest
Indivisible
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
Mi Familia Vota
MomsRising
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
National Education Association (NEA)
National Organization for Women
National Superintendents Roundtable
Our Revolution
Pride at Work
Rebuild America's Schools
RootsAction.org
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
State Innovation Exchange
Take on Wall Street
Tax March
Teach for America
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
The United States Conference of Mayors
Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO
Voices for Progress