Women’s Group Says First 100 Days of Biden-Harris Administration Show Strong Progress to Building Back Better, But More Is Needed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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Women’s Group Says First 100 Days of Biden-Harris Administration Show Strong Progress to Building Back Better, But More Is Needed
UltraViolet Says American Families Plan is a Critical First Step to Supporting Women, Our Economy and National Future
Urges President Biden to Continue to Center the Needs of Women and People of Color in His Agenda
WASHINGTON, DC — In reaction to President Biden’s proposed American Families Plan and in commemoration of the Biden-Harris Administration’s first 100 days in office, Sonja Spoo, campaign director at UltraViolet, a leading national gender justice organization, issued the following statement:
“President Biden’s American Families Plan is a significant and critical investment in our families and communities. The challenge of these times and the inequities that have been allowed to linger for too long demand that Congress take even bolder action for women and families.
“We are celebrating the investments in childcare, education, universal paid leave, and child tax credits and we’re grateful to UltraViolet members and advocates for the organizing they did to make these investments possible.
“We also know we cannot build back better if women are not being paid a living wage, if we are still saddled with crushing student debt, and without permanent investment in our children through expanded tax credits and additional support for childcare and family care.
“The pandemic did not create the inequality that has held back progress for women and families, it simply shone a bright light on these problems. President Biden was elected with a mandate to go big.
“To fight for the working women who kept this country going at home, on the frontlines in our hospitals, in our schools, farms, grocery stores, and care homes. Women’s labor and time is the critical infrastructure this country relies on.
“Women of color especially worked our asses off to get Biden into office on the promise that we would be centered. While we appreciate the progress made so far in the ARP and now in this proposal, we know this urgency of the need demands more.
“We look forward to working with Congress and the White House to continue to center women of color, Black women, Indigenous women and LGTBQ people, and to push for the transformation needed.”
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