Poverty has been increasing. The world has never been wealthier but the gap between rich and poor is growing every day.  All over the world people like you and I are surviving without sufficient food, shelter, medical care or education. If each and every one of us does one little thing to help fight poverty, it will snowball into a whole movement that will make a big impact on the poverty statistics.Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue of this petition. But this will only happen if you start it in yourself and specially in your community. Get involved!

What can we do?

1. Create jobs
The best pathway out of poverty is a well-paying job.

2. Raise the minimum wage

3. Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit for childless workers

4. Support pay equity

5. Provide paid leave and paid sick days

6. Establish work schedules that work

7. Invest in affordable, high-quality child care and early education

8. Expand Medicaid

9. Reform the criminal justice system and enact policies that support successful re-entry

10. Do no harm