"I am encouraged by the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to prioritize these frontline communities. We need these investments now."
"For my constituents and the estimated one in five people across America who are unbanked or underbanked, lack of access and fractured trust with financial institutions is incredibly expensive."
"What a welcome change. I am overjoyed to see that we have someone dedicated to exacting housing justice back at the helm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development."
"President Biden... has proposed a budget and a Build Back Better Plan which increases such efforts and includes billions in funding to address the public housing repair backlog and millions to remove ..."
"It is time we recognize and treat structural racism and police brutality through a public health lens when we can."
"The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act is a critical bill introduced by my colleagues, Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Barbara Lee."
"Statement of Hon. Ayanna Pressley, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 24, 2021"
"Our greatest wealth as a nation is the health of our people, and a meaningful, universal, and permanent paid leave policy is about the health of our people, about the stabilization of our families."
"Many of my colleagues today have really proved that our greatest deficit as a nation is not one of resource, but of empathy."
"What impacts would universal vouchers have for helping marginalized populations avoid homelessness and criminalization?"
"Transforming the Housing Choice Voucher Program into an entitlement program, similar to Medicare or Medicaid, is the bold, transformative, and necessary change that my constituents need right now."