Dear Mr. President:
We, at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, continue to celebrate your signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act. As you said at the signing ceremony last year, “After all, the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans didn’t mark the end of America’s work to deliver on the promise of equality; it only marked the beginning.” Indeed, as you know, the legacy of slavery and the failure to address harms stemming from it have resulted in vast racial disparities between White and Black people in virtually every sector of life — including the ability to accumulate wealth; access health care, education, housing, and employment opportunities; receive fair treatment in the criminal-legal system; and much more.
Addressing these harms is a key part of our mission at The Leadership Conference, a diverse coalition of more than 230 national organizations, to create a just and inclusive society by promoting and protecting civil and human rights in the United States. We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to advance economic justice policies that will benefit the Black community as we observe the Juneteenth holiday and continue to build upon your administration’s efforts to confront discrimination and racial disparities. These are the modern-day repercussions of slavery. We ask that you use your presidential powers to make the case to Congress for closing the Medicaid coverage gap and permanently expanding the child tax credit,...
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