Legislative Commission to End
Poverty
in Minnesota by 2020
Mission Statement
Develop guidelines to end
poverty. Prepare recommendation on how to end poverty in Minnesota by
2020.
The commission must be guided by
the following principles:
(a) There should be a consistent and
persistent approach that includes participation of people of faith, nonprofit
agencies, government and businesses
(b) All people should be provided
with those things that protect human dignity and make for a healthy life,
including adequate food and shelter, meaningful work, safe communities, health
care and education.
(c) All people are intended to live
well together as a whole community, seeking the common good, avoiding wide
disparities between those who have to little to live on and those who have a
disproportionate share of the nation's goods.
(d) All people need to work together
to overcome poverty, and this work transcends both any particular political
theory or party and any particular economic theory or structure.
Overcoming poverty requires the use of private and public resources.
(e) Alliances are needed between the
faith community, nonprofit agencies, government, business and others with a
commitment to overcoming poverty.
(f) Overcoming poverty involves both
acts of direct service to alleviate the outcomes of poverty and advocacy to
change those structures that result in people living in poverty.
(g) Government is neither solely
responsible for alleviating poverty nor removed from that responsibility.
Government is the vehicle by which people order their lives based on their
shared vision. Society is well served when people bring their values in
the public arena. This convergence around issues of poverty and the common
good leads people of varying tradition to call on government to make a critical
commitment to overcoming poverty.
Established by the
Legislature in 2006. - Minnesota
Laws 2006 Chapter 282, article 2, section 27.
Last Updated:
09/14/07 (sk)
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