➤ BIDEN & SANDERS, from p.24
en economic downturn by creating
jobs, providing boosts in funding
to state and local governments,
propping up small businesses
with grants and loans, and enacting
paid sick leave protections for
workers.
Queer folks were mentioned
throughout different sections of the
recommendations outlined by the
task force. On housing, the task
force members stressed the importance
of ending homelessness and
noted that LGBTQ youth, particularly
Black youth, are disproportionately
impacted by housing insecurity.
To that end, the task force
called for enacting strong housing
protections for queer people.
The task force also included the
experiences of queer students in
the conversation surrounding education,
pointing to the need to reinstate
the Obama era Department
of Education guidance protecting
trans students under Title IX and
to prevent discrimination against
LGBTQ students.
The Trump administration’s aggressive
resistance to immigrants
naturally prompted the task force
to call for the unraveling of neglect
on that front: It recommended the
lifting of discriminatory travel
bans, the ending of family separation,
the pursuit of communitybased
alternatives to detention
centers, and the welcoming of refugees
who are fl eeing anti-LGBTQ
nations or abusive environments.
The task force also seeks to give
Dreamers access to Affordable
Care Act benefi ts.
The economic-focused recommendations
call for a major revitalization
of the nation’s infrastructure
— with an emphasis on
doing so in a green, sustainable
way; expanding affordable broadband
networks, an issue that has
become more urgent in the face of
a pandemic that has forced many
individuals to work from home;
increasing affordable banking services
through the Federal Reserve
and more accessible banking options
such as postal banking; raising
the federal minimum wage to
$15 per hour; bolstering the labor
movement and unions; and more.
There is also an economic emphasis
on race, including strengthening
the federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission to
address employment discrimination;
improving access to credit
and increasing funding for minority
owned businesses; and
eradicating discriminatory housing
practices that have prevented
Black families from a fair chance
at home ownership. The task force
seeks to address the racial gap
in insurance rates and increase
funding for Obamacare outreach
and enrollment programs.
On the climate front, the task
force aims to achieve net-zero
greenhouse gas emissions for all
new buildings by 2030 and get rid
of carbon pollution at power plants
by 2035 under a plan that would
bring online 500 million solar panels
and wind turbines. That kind
of infrastructure would be made
in the United States via unionized
jobs, the task force pledges.
The members would like to create
an “environmental justice
fund” that invests into federal
agencies that eliminate legacy pollution
already in place, a driving
factor of illness and deaths in communities
of color, low-income areas,
and indigenous communities.
On a broader level, Democrats are
pledging to work with communities
to screen and map out racial and
socioeconomic issues in federal climate,
energy, and infrastructure
programs.
Criminal justice initiatives include
revamping use of force
guidelines and federal prosecutorial
guidelines to discourage
overcharging cases employed as a
means of forcing plea deals; supporting
progressive prosecutors;
banning police chokeholds; ending
the use of private prisons and detention
centers as well as solitary
confi nement; and directing federal
funding to create a civilian corps
of unarmed fi rst responders like
social workers, EMTs, and trained
mental health professionals to respond
to non-violent emergencies.
Biden will accept the nomination
during a Democratic National Convention
that will be mostly virtual
due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He will be in Milwaukee, where it
was originally slated to be held,
and some limited events that will
take place. Delegates, however, are
casting their votes remotely.
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