"the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit provisions, among others in the Rescue Plan, will do more to reduce child poverty in our country than all the empty rhetoric for the last 25 years about personal responsibility."
"I think it is time that we begin to discuss a new deal between the federal government and its people as distinct from a contract on America that exacerbates inequities."
"We need a minimum wage increase. We have got to stop pretending that we can just live off of nothing."
"In 2018 the CTC pulled 4.3 million Americans, including 2.3 million children, out of poverty."
"we cannot only end welfare as we know it, but we can end the misery inflicted by poverty on our communities going forward."
"I have really, really enjoyed listening to this panel of experts."
"the most common age among white people is 58, and that's double what the common age is for Black people, which is 27."
"It was stagecraft. And his whole purpose for coming to Wisconsin was to set the stage, and he hoped to set the stage for the second civil war, so that he could rationalize his law and order agenda."
"I just learned just now that the president defended this 17-year-old and called it self-defense. I mean, I thought I couldn't be shocked anymore. But I am."
"And this strategy of embracing violence and chaos will backfire on him."
"The president already starting his campaign against her bringing up birtherism. So I think that his raw racism right out in public is really going to be the thing to galvanize our entire coalition."