the earned income tax credit excludes single people. They are currently being taxed into poverty.

We know who got the benefit of it. It has been proven over and over and over again.

Inequality is not inevitable. It is about the choices we make.

The inequality that they face is an important and rising part of the equation for what causes general inequality.

The child tax credit, 83 percent of the Republican tax law went to the richest 1 percent of the people in this country.

Much of that reduction is due to our social safety net programs.

We have to give workers back their right to organize. This a human right.

They want to eliminate affordable housing programs, the very programs that have helped to lift people out of poverty.

Do not talk out of both sides of your mouth because what you would do with some of these programs to make them so onerous as to humiliate people into not taking advantage of the programs that are there.

We do know that a Nobel Prize winning economist, Joe Stiglitz, no schlep in the economy world, here says that inequality is not inevitable. It is about the choices we make.

the social safety net programs were crafted by Democrats and Republicans, in fact, realizing the economic challenges we were facing

They want to change the way that the federal government measures poverty, thereby throwing people off of these programs.

they want to change the way that the federal government measures poverty, thereby throwing people off of these programs

A $75 increase to families to reduce inequality. Talk for a moment about providing a child tax credit for the families that I am talking about.

We have a piece of legislation called the American Family Act, which I am proud to have authored.

intentional policy choices by this administration created what I would call a mental health crisis

We must stop the trauma inflicted on these children.

I joined my colleagues Tony Cardenas, Tom Graves, and Buddy Carter in introducing bipartisan legislation that would codify, in Title XIX of the Social Security Act, the Medicaid transportation benefit.

I don't see--I mean, what I do see is that, you know, our being able to achieve universal healthcare...

If it's good enough for Members of Congress it should be good enough for the general population.

I usually blame CBO for everything, in case you haven't noticed.

Medicare for America achieves universal, affordable, high-quality health coverage.

I am here to advocate for Medicare for America, which is a proposal in your jurisdiction that I have introduced with the chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

Ending Medicaid coverage for non-emergency medical transportation would literally have been a matter of life and death for many of these individuals.

Agree with universal healthcare, Dr. Burgess.