mental health in minority communities. (c) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Nearly 70 years have passed since the post-World War II economic recovery initiative known as the Marshall Plan spurred the fastest period of growth in European history. Industrial and agricultural production skyrocketed. The poverty and starvation of the immediate postwar years disappeared, and Western Europe embarked upon an unprecedented two decades of growth that saw standards of living increase dramatically. (2) Whitney M. Young, who served as executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, first proposed a domestic Marshall Plan in 1964. Many elements of his plan, which called for $145 billion in spending over 10 years, were incorporated into President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty legislation. (3) In the 1990 edition of the State of Black America, National Urban League President John Jacob again called for an urban Marshall Plan. (4) In 2017, the National Urban League again called for an investment in America by introducing “The Main Street Marshall Plan: From Poverty to Shared Prosperity.” The plan calls for investment in physical infrastructure such as roads, bridges and buildings, and for human development, such as education, job training and health insurance. (5) African Americans were disproportionately battered by the Great Recession and have benefited least from the fragile economic recovery that has followed and continue to lag behind in employment, entrepreneurship, education and homeownership, across all educational levels. (6) While the United States economy has emerged from the depths of the Great Recession, employment outcomes remain challenging for African Americans. (7) The African American unemployment rate, at 6.9 percent, remains nearly twice the White unemployment rate of 3.6 percent, a situation which has been true for nearly as long as unemployment statistics have been recorded (since around the time of the Great Depression). (8) Unemployment remains particularly acute among