Yesterday, Amazon founder and multibillionaire Jeff Bezos spent four minutes in space, at a cost of about $5.5 billion.

Let's be clear exactly how outrageous that is: an Amazon worker making $15 an hour would have to work more than 91 million hours to spend one minute in space. (In fact, an Amazon worker making $5,000 an hour would still need to work 275,000 hours – more than 100 years of 40 hour weeks – for one minute of space tourism.)

It's also worth noting that while working families pay the taxes that funded decades of space research and exploration, Amazon has famously avoided paying its fair share, through a combination of accounting trickery and good-old-boy lobbying.

Our rallying cry, as Jahana Hayes and I shared in Civil Eats:

Even before the pandemic, over 40 million Americans experienced food insecurity. While Congress has made significant and important progress to address hunger during the COVID pandemic through landmark investments in nutrition programs, we believe it's time to take the next step.

The emphasis is mine, because we cannot wait any longer to address food insecurity among our friends and neighbors.

Over four years, Donald Trump made so many empty promises to address our country's crumbling infrastructure that it became a kind of sad joke in the news.

Less than six months into the Biden presidency, we're on the cusp of passing the largest, most progressive infrastructure package in a generation.

That's because of progressive leaders like Jim never stopped fighting for our vision of a modern, progressive, green infrastructure bill. We're almost there. Chip in now to keep up the pressure.