Ayanna Pressley

To be clear, unless you believe that poverty is a character flaw, there is absolutely no justification for triple-digit interest rate installment loans.

What we are seeing is really intergenerational trauma, poverty, and poor health outcomes.

This is child abuse. This is elder abuse. This is abuse, period--par for the course of this administration, where the cruelty is the point.

Poverty is not a character flaw; it is a result of failed and often cruel policymaking.

Make no mistake about it: Housing is health.

In my district, the Massachusetts Seventh alone, black girls are six times more likely to be suspended from school...

This technology is clearly biased, inaccurate, and even more dangerous when used in schools, where black and brown students are disproportionately already over-policed and disciplined at higher rates than their white peers for the same…

I worked with my colleagues Representative Clarke and Representative Tlaib on legislation to protect those living in HUD public housing from this technology.

We know that the logical end of surveillance is often over-policing and the criminalization of vulnerable and marginalized communities.

Letter from the American Civil Liberties Union; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the Massachusetts Teachers Association; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the American Federation of Teachers, Massachusetts; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

Letter from the BTU; submitted by Rep. Pressley.

HUD does not use eviction rates as a tool for grading public housing authorities (PHAs), correct?

Eviction isn't just the condition of poverty. It is a cause of poverty.

We have broken families because of broken systems and broken promises, and, I think, because of a deficit of empathy.

The reality is that most Americans struggle in order to realize the American Dream, which means that what is synonymous with the American experience is hardship.

It is odd but consistent that this Administration's modernization efforts betray the fundamental mission of what they hope to modernize.

Census data is used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal funding for health care programs.

I find that I have that dual experience often on this committee of comparable pride of our honoring the words of our late chairman in being in efficient and effective pursuit of the truth and simultaneous shame with all of the efforts to…

At the very least, we should regulate the use of talc or add warning labels to the products, but, ideally, we need to get this stuff off the shelves.

Current policy is simply out of touch with the fact that, at some point, virtually every person, every working person--because hardship does not discriminate--will need to take time away from a job to fulfill caregiving responsibilities.

It is simply appalling that the United States continues to be one of only two industrialized nations in the world without any form of paid family leave.

I want to say I associate myself with the impassioned Detroit tell-it-like-it-is comments of Representative Tlaib a moment ago, and completely dissociate myself with the comments offered by my colleague across the aisle.