Today We Celebrate American Workers
Labor Day is a time to celebrate America’s hard-working families and honor advancements the labor movement has made to protect workers’ rights.
How we fight back in Texas
This week, a barbaric law went into effect in Texas that bans abortions after just six weeks of pregnancy — long before most women even know they’re pregnant — and allows no exceptions for rape or incest. The law also allows individual citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone access an abortion, effectively creating abortion bounty hunters.
“In spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.”
Today is the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, calling on the nation to rise up for political and economic justice for all Americans.
Important COVID-19 Updates
We’re now 17 months into the global COVID-19 pandemic, and I wanted to send a couple of important updates and reminders as COVID cases are on the rise in Connecticut and across the country and as some COVID-19 relief provisions will expire in the coming weeks.
It’s infrastructure month
Starting today, Child Tax Credit monthly payments will begin hitting bank accounts for millions of families across America and over 100,000 families in my district in Southwest Connecticut, thanks to the expansion in the American Rescue Plan. This tax credit for families will deliver much-needed support to pay for childcare, food on the table, bills and more.
Cutting child poverty in half
Starting today, Child Tax Credit monthly payments will begin hitting bank accounts for millions of families across America and over 100,000 families in my district in Southwest Connecticut, thanks to the expansion in the American Rescue Plan. This tax credit for families will deliver much-needed support to pay for childcare, food on the table, bills and more.
Good news: America is back
June’s jobs report and work period in the House sent a strong message: America is on the move again with a historic economic recovery.
The economic gap has widened, it’s time to act.
Economic disparities in our country are wider than ever. Covid made this brutally plain. Over the last 15 months, America’s wealthiest families worked from home, grew their wealth and accessed premier health care. Other Americans lost their jobs and struggled to pay rent and buy food. Our economy is recovering, but not for all.
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes will lead hearings on wealth gap illustrated in Greenwich-Bridgeport divide
Weeks after President Biden unveiled a set of proposals to close what the White House called a “racial wealth gap” in the United States, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes was named to lead a Congressional panel that will address earnings disparities across demographic groups and geographic pockets.
MSNBC Interview with Rep. Himes: We can’t begin to know the scope of Trump DOJ investigations
Rep. Jim Himes joins Ali Velshi to discuss reports of the Trump Justice Department’s “efforts to go after the president’s political opponents.”