; Whereas of the approximately 60,000,000 adults with disabilities in the country, 26 percent are living below the poverty line, 10 percent are uninsured, and 7,000,000 students with disabilities are enrolled in our public schools; Whereas the average cost of living in the Nation amounts to more than twice the OPM and SPM, close to $60,000 for a household of four; Whereas due to these limitations in the measure of poverty, social welfare and antipoverty programs have been underfunded, to the extent that only 1 in 5 eligible families received TANF or Federal housing assistance, expanded SNAP (food stamps) were reduced to just $6 per day and Head Start reaches only 54 percent of eligible 3- to 4-year-olds; Whereas household debt burdens have grown to over $17,000,000,000,000, and more than two-thirds of our families are having difficulty meeting usual household expenses, including more than three-quarters of low-income households and Black and Latina/o families; Whereas student debt amounts to $1,600,000,000,000, impacting 44,000,000 households, and 100,000,000 Americans struggle with medical debt; Whereas alongside mounting poverty, low wealth, debt, and economic desperation, poor communities and poor communities of color are hit first and worst by climate change, pollution, extreme weather, climate disaster, ecological devastation, and related health disparities, including during the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas an expansion of oil and fossil fuel infrastructure led to over 5,000 significant oil and gas leaks or ruptures on United States pipelines, more than 2,400 oil spills in United States waters, and 1,100 coal ash ponds, all of which are disproportionately proximate to poor communities; Whereas decades of residential segregation continue to expose, especially, Black communities to greater air pollution, as well as Latina/o, Asian and Pacific Islander, and poor and low-wealth communities