Leading experts’ bold new guidelines are a “crucial roadmap,” the 2020 candidate for president tells BuzzFeed News.
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is endorsing a set of policy proposals that leading policy experts predict would “dramatically reduce” the racial wealth divide.
A draft of the report, titled “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide,” will be jointly-released this week by the Institute for Policy Studies, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The platform isn’t meant to be all-encompassing, but rather a guide for “actionable” steps as the political climate shifts toward fixing long-standing systemic economic inequality, the authors said.
Gillibrand has focused on job creation in New York specifically as the state’s senator, including with support for legislation that would have put 2 million people to work restoring the nation’s decaying infrastructure. She was among the first presidential candidates to support the guarantee of a job at a living wage to every American worker. Gillibrand has also pushed for legislation in the Senate that would provide a checking account to millions of Americans who don't have one.
In a statement, Gillibrand highlighted her work on postal banking in the Senate, endorsing the platform which she said “provides a crucial roadmap for beginning to address the systemic racism that unacceptably pervades our society.”
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