EVERYONE HAS A PLACE

This project has placed Idaho at the center for the most important work in front of all of us – preserving our democracy and holding it. Combining decades of relationship building with Covid-era organizing know-how the program’s expansion will provide next-level field resources, training and organizing conducted with a new spirit of collaboration that includes the partnership of dozens of national and local organizations. Put simply, we cannot win on all the priorities we need to thrive without a durable and healthy democracy.

We face  continuing challenges that would undermine the health and well being of millions of Americans through the Affordable Care Act. We work nationally and at the state level to advance Medicare for ALL and a system that puts people before the interests of insurance companies. 

We need a financial system that works for people and communities, not the other way around. Our economy is about more than numbers. It’s about people. 

UVI has worked to protect CHIP, Pass Family Leave and championed legislation to ensure Pay Equity and Collective Bargaining for Idaho workers. For six years, we have with our labor partners championed a bill to raise Idaho's minimum wage.

All families should have what we need to thrive. Instead, our society is becoming more and more unequal.  It’s time to rebalance and prioritize our public budgets.

UVI has always been a fierce advocate for state and national budgets that prioritize people and families. and  stop the efforts that are leading to the largest wealth gap in our country's history. 

We must protect and improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations. We fight to protect Medicare and Medicaid, and advocate for fair taxes to support public services.  American’s health should not be at the mercy of the big health insurance companies.

 We must work to dismantle efforts to undermine economic justice by awarding our tax dollars to billionaires and millionaires increasing their profits, while our wages stagnate and more of us have to borrow to make ends meet.

We’re fighting to keep students from having to mortgage their futures for a college education. Debt-free higher education — including immediate debt relief — must be part of our education promise. 

Our criminal justice system relegates one-third of Black men to prison. Racism is deeply entrenched in our criminal justice system and the rates of incarceration of people of color reflect the blatant discrimination in enforcement and our courts. 

We can replace the criminal justice and immigration systems we have now with investments in people and communities, alternatives to incarceration, and family unity instead of mass deportations and detention. 

This crisis is the product of an economic and political system that now stands as the only nation on Earth that formally refuses to put people and planet first. 

 UVI was proud to be the fiscal sponsor of Idaho residents who have been fighting to protect farmlands and homesteads, who continue to make great strides. We are devout in making sure the climate crisis is a priority in our state and nation. 

Today, a full-time worker earning minimum wage cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any county⁠—urban, suburban, or rural⁠—in the United States. Everyone living in the United States should have safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing: a Home’s Guarantee. 

​Over 3 million families and individuals are experiencing homelessness. Millions more live one medical bill, flat tire, or other life event away from homelessness. 

Any one person’s wellness depends on everyone else’s. 

No matter what we look like, where we live, or what's in our wallets, getting sick reminds us that at our core we’re all just human. This is a moment that we must stand with and for each other across our differences and against anything and anyone who seeks to divide us. 

Moments of social crisis open up opportunities to advance radical forms of change that would be impossible in normal times. What’s immediately doable will never be enough to win what our communities need.  WE understand the importance of stepping into the breach in moments of crisis to advance a bold vision for the changes we need to build a new peoples economy and society: we fight for the larger structural changes -- and we are shifting our organizing so that we can build the power we need to get there.