; Whereas we need the resolve to pass moral and just laws and policies that fully address these interlocking injustices, which were deepened during the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas the official poverty measure (OPM) is an inadequate measure that does not account for today’s cost of living, including child care, health insurance, and transportation, and even the supplemental poverty measure (SPM) does not account for all modern necessities or debt burdens that siphon household resources away from meeting basic needs; Whereas among the 140,000,000 people who were poor, low wealth, or one emergency away from economic ruin, were 52 percent of children (39,000,000), 45 percent of women (74,000,000), 60 percent of Black people (24,000,000), 64 percent of Latina/o people (38,000,000), 40 percent of Asian and Pacific Islander people (8,000,000), 59 percent of Native and Indigenous people (2,000,000), and 33 percent of White people (66,000,000)