The League joined a letter calling on the U.S. Senate to address the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 by enacting legislation that achieves certain objectives. These objectives include ensuring equal access to quality health care, providing more relief for most marginalized communities, protecting the most vulnerable working people, safeguarding homes and financial health, and providing shelter to those most in need, reducing law enforcement responses and the risks to incarcerated people and corrections employees, combatting sharp increases in hate crimes, minimizing learning loss, ensuring equal educational opportunities, and protecting student loan borrowers, protecting our democracy, ensuring a fair and accurate census, and protecting immigrants and citizens alike.
See full letter and list of signers attached
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In these times of uncertainty and physical distancing, standing together with our communities is more important than ever.
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The League joined over 200 organizations supporting an effort led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights urging federal lawmakers and state elections officials to adopt key policies to ensure both the public’s safety and the orderly conduct of the 2020 primary and general elections in light of the current threat posed by COVID-19.
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