To: The Minnesota State House, The Minnesota State Senate, and Governor Tim Walz
Correction
Require that all Minnesotans be covered by health insurance.
Increase taxes on those who can afford to pay more and reduce taxes for the middle class and the working classes in Minnesota. Make taxes in MN more progressive and based on ability to pay.
Legalize recreational marijuana use in MN while providing banking for companies engaged in the marijuana industry.
Stop incarcerating people who use illegal drugs and instead provide services to break the habit and help them become productive citizens, stop jailing juveniles for status offenses or technical violations, stop incarcerating people who cannot make bail for minor offenses
Provide instate tuition at state colleges and trade schools and other help for those who fall under DACA.
Increase taxes on those who can afford to pay more and reduce taxes for the middle class and the working classes in Minnesota. Make taxes in MN more progressive and based on ability to pay.
Legalize recreational marijuana use in MN while providing banking for companies engaged in the marijuana industry.
Stop incarcerating people who use illegal drugs and instead provide services to break the habit and help them become productive citizens, stop jailing juveniles for status offenses or technical violations, stop incarcerating people who cannot make bail for minor offenses
Provide instate tuition at state colleges and trade schools and other help for those who fall under DACA.
Why is this important?
Every year, 636,000 people walk out of prison gates, but people go to jail over 11 million times each year. Jail churn is particularly high because most people in jails have not been convicted. Some have just been arrested and will make bail in the next few hours or days, and others are too poor to make bail and must remain behind bars until their trial. Only a small number (195,000) have been convicted, generally serving misdemeanors sentences under a year. 1 in 5 people are locked up for drug offenses.
The bottom 50% earned 20% of the nation's pre-tax income in 1979; this fell steadily to 14% by 2007 and 13% by 2014. ... Half of the U.S. population lives in poverty or is low-income, according to U.S. Census data.
The ACA only works when everyone is insured--otherwise people wait until they are sick to buy insurance and this makes insurance unaffordable.
In a Center for American Progress survey of roughly 3,000 DACA recipients, nine-tenths of respondents said they had jobs. Their average hourly wage was $17.46 an hour, up from $10.29 before receiving DACA. About 72 percent of respondents were in higher education. After getting DACA, nearly 80 percent of respondents said they got driver's licenses. About half became organ donors.
The bottom 50% earned 20% of the nation's pre-tax income in 1979; this fell steadily to 14% by 2007 and 13% by 2014. ... Half of the U.S. population lives in poverty or is low-income, according to U.S. Census data.
The ACA only works when everyone is insured--otherwise people wait until they are sick to buy insurance and this makes insurance unaffordable.
In a Center for American Progress survey of roughly 3,000 DACA recipients, nine-tenths of respondents said they had jobs. Their average hourly wage was $17.46 an hour, up from $10.29 before receiving DACA. About 72 percent of respondents were in higher education. After getting DACA, nearly 80 percent of respondents said they got driver's licenses. About half became organ donors.