HRES 159
114th Congress
House
Economics and Public Finance
Economic performance and conditions
Racial and ethnic relations
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the current record breaking wealth gap is a national problem for the nation's economic security, and that broad-based, generational and systemic inequities continue to distort economic progress and opportunity for tens of millions of Americans -especially low and middle-income Americans and communities of color.
Introduced: March 18, 2015
Introduced by:
Waters, Maxine
Democratic
· California
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Became law
Mar 18, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Mar 18, 2015
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1750)
Mar 18, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Recognizes that all families need to be economically secure to create opportunities for their children and the nation's next generation.
Recognizes that wealth and income inequality hurt economic growth and risks economic security for individual families, our communities, and the nation as a whole.
Supports the elimination of the wealth gap and the racial wealth gap as national economic security priorities.
Acknowledges that Congress has a responsibility to implement thoughtful, proven and pragmatic policy strategies to eliminate the wealth gap and the racial wealth gap.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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