to set out a long-term vision, our benchmarks and to say this is where we want to go as a nation. and we have to establish an advanced society here in the united states of america. what that means is that we have to push the bounds, we have to start treating housing as a right, we need to start protecting renters and updating the federal poverty line. our calculation for the federal poverty line is based on 1955 spending habits that assumes one income earner, a stay-at-home mom. we need to update our poverty line, address the housing crisis in this country. we need to stop treating people who duly paid their debt to society, the formerly incarcerated as outcasts for the rest of their lives. we need to become a modern society. we need to honor workers rights, the right to unionize, the right to establish worker cooperatives and we also need to join the