; Whereas, since 2010, at least 25 States had passed new voter restrictions, imposing racist gerrymandering and redistricting, restricting early voting and voting hours, purging voter rolls, closing polling stations, and instituting onerous voter ID laws; Whereas 10 years after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby v. Holder, voting rights remain unprotected, unleashing an assault on voting rights and access to democracy, including that, since the 2020 elections, over 1,000 voter restriction laws have been introduced in all 50 States; Whereas voter suppression laws disproportionately target poor, Black, Brown, and Native people, they also pave the way for immoral policies that deny health care, living wages, immigrant rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and more; Whereas nearly 52,000,000 people are working for low wages, including at least 47 percent of Black workers, 46 percent of Latina/o workers and approximately 30 percent of White workers, and a significant number (40 percent) of low-wage workers are women; Whereas approximately 12,000,000 essential workers are immigrants, including 5,000,000 undocumented immigrants, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are the highest represented subgroup among essential workers; Whereas women carry a disproportionate share of unpaid care work, which would total $1,500,000,000,000 at the current minimum wage ($7.25); Whereas the average hourly wage that a full-time worker requires to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment is over $25 per hour; Whereas there are 8,000,000 to 11,000,000 people at risk of homelessness, and an estimated 34,000,000 people are facing food insecurity, including a disproportionate share of Black, Latina/o, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and multiracial households, yet protections against evictions and hunger are being rolled back