; Whereas even at the peak of a business cycle, with a relatively low unemployment rate, many workers remain job insecure, earn insufficient income, and experience un- and underemployment; Whereas the United States presently fails to recognize, support, or adequately remunerate the household and care work of millions of women, parents, and familial caregivers; Whereas economic prosperity in the United States has been highly unequal since its founding, largely falling on racial lines, with Black and indigenous Americans consistently earning less, owning less, and experiencing greater rates of economic precarity and poverty than White Americans; Whereas the United States has not increased the minimum wage for years, and maintains subminimum wage carveouts for incarcerated people, people with disabilities, and tipped workers; Whereas the United States presently exploits millions of undocumented workers, by forcing them to work in substandard conditions and below prevailing wages; Whereas the United States is presently experiencing a generational crisis, as millions of younger and older workers face structural barriers to meaningful participation in the workforce; Whereas the United States is underinvesting in critical human and physical infrastructure, including care and the environment, as well as underinvesting in creative, cultural, scientific, and knowledge industries, including higher education, libraries, public art, and journalism; Whereas the United States is facing three overlapping and compounding crises, namely climate change, systemic racism, and extreme economic inequality, that together require a large-scale mobilization on the scale of World War II to address; Whereas low-wage workers, and Black, Latinx, Native American, and other communities of color, as well as women and people with disabilities are experiencing sustained economic distress and face mounting debts