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Dear lawmakers: I write to urge Congress to pass another urgent COVID-19 economic relief package that protects public health and ensures economic security in the face of the widening coronavirus pandemic. I believe that this next round of relief funding must do the following: * Provide food, basic income, and housing for the most vulnerable by expanding and extending food assistance; expanding and extending unemployment assistance and broader worker supports around paid leave; and investing in public housing. * Expand support for state and local budgets to keep essential state programs and agencies afloat. Now is not the time for big state budget cuts. * Protect vulnerable communities from having water and energy utility services cut off during this crisis. * Expand funding for the aid programs for small businesses, including those in one of the fastest-growing sectors: clean energy. * Avoid blank check bailouts to the fossil fuel industry and other polluting industries that harm public health and worsen climate change. Furthermore, Congress must begin thinking about long-term economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. That means building a just, equitable economy that works for ALL people, prioritizing sustainable infrastructure, and providing the clean energy jobs of the future that will move us to a 100% clean energy economy. Thank you.

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