FUTURE STATE OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE

• A comprehensive overhaul of economic supports, employment, and education in this country that creates abundant accessible economic opportunities for healing and advancement for Black, Brown and other people of color who have been harmed by centuries of systemic economic inequity rooted in racialized violence.
  

We Pursue this Future in Solidarity

We recognize the harm, trauma, and even death that economic policies have caused in this country, including policies on public benefits, employment, and education. This harm is systematically and disproportionately inflicted on Black, Brown, and other people of color and LGBTQ communities. We support a comprehensive overhaul of economic supports, employment, and education in this country that includes comprehensive policy changes and large scale local, state, and federal investments. These investments must include full scale reparations for Black and Indigenous Americans. 

We will pursue the transformative vision the New Deal in active solidarity with: 

• Policy platform demands like A New Deal for Youth Economic Justice and Opportunity 

• Advocacy campaigns for universal basic income like Income Movement

• The call to raise the minimum wage led by organizations like Raise the Minimum Wage and alignment with proposed legislation H.R. 603 Raise the Wage Act of 2021    

• Movements calling for universal access to education - Youth Mandate for Education & Liberation and Rise Free 

• Campaigns calling for the repatriation of stolen land back to Indigenous stewardship, like the Landback Movement

• Calls for reparations for past and continuing harms to Black communities, as outlined by organizations like the Movement for Black Lives

This policy vision is shaped to complement broader and related efforts to transform laws and policies that create our public benefits, economic, and educational systems. The policy vision of the New Deal to End Youth Homelessness is focused on the needs of young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness and transforming the laws and policies that harm and jeopardize the safety of young people.

We commit to build solidarity with other coalitions and movements advocating for and creating systems that fully support youth to thrive with income, employment, and educational opportunities and that offer reparations for the harms of slavery and systemic racism to Black Americans and the harms of colonization on Indigenous communities in our pursuit of the New Deal to End Youth Homelessness.