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The Legislative Commission to End Poverty is seeking feedbackOffer your ideas (With the attachment missing from the earlier e-mail!) Workgroup Ideas Summary Document The Joint Religious Legislative Coalition and Affirmative Options invite you to a meeting about the draft recommendations from the Legislative Commission to End Poverty from 10 a.m.-noon Friday, Oct. 24th at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 700 Snelling Ave. South, Saint Paul. Staff from the Commission will attend, and legislators serving on the Commission have been invited. Join us if you want to help carry a message that the Commission should embrace recommendations that set measurable benchmarks to track Minnesota’s progress in addressing poverty and that will:Make work possible and ensure work paysEnd predatory market practicesMake it possible for low income Minnesotans to accumulate and hold onto assetsSupport Minnesota communities in developing person-to-person networks of supportThe Commission will present a summary of the recommendations they are considering (in summary form in the attachment to this e-mail and in longer form at the commission’s website. There will be ample opportunity for you to offer your comments on those recommendations. The Commission has also approached some of the communities they visited on the Poverty Listening Sessions to help convene feedback sessions outside the metro area including:Brainerd from 10 a.m.-noon, Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the First Lutheran Church, hosted by the Initiative FoundationSt. Cloud from 9 a.m.-noon, Wednesday, November 5, place to be announced. (The Saint Cloud United Way is working with the Legislative Commission on this session.)Duluth from 6:30-9 p.m.Wednesday, November 5, place to be announced. (CHUM is working with the Legislative Commission on this session.)Plans are also pending for Rochester, Red Lake, and White Earth Reservations. When more details are available we will forward that information. Background on the Commission and the regional visitsThe Legislative Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota is an official commission of the Minnesota State Legislators. Eighteen legislators and two citizens serve on the Commission. The state statute that created the Commission requires the Commission to make recommendations on how to end poverty to the full legislature by the end of December. Affirmative Options will keep its members up to date on the Commission and identify opportunities to engage with the Commission.
Ending Poverty. It's Time
Poverty is too little money to cover basic and fundamental needs. The solutions must be ones that make it possible for Minnesotans to:Increase their incomesccumulate and hold onto assetsAfford basic needs through a fair marketplaceOur Coalition explores policy options that affirm our state’s core values: Work, Opportunity, Fair play, Compassion, and Community. We can build on a legacy of introducing the nation to effective and innovative solutions to end poverty. It's possible. It's time.
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