Issue Position: 10-20-30 Funding Formula

Issue Position

Jim's 10-20-30 plan directs at least 10 percent of appropriated funds to communities where 20 percent or more of their populations have lived below the poverty level for the last 30 years. He successfully got i10-20-30 inserted into four agricultural accounts of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

ARRA expired in 2010, but Jim Clyburn continued his pursuit of the concept, and 10-20-30 has begun receiving broad bi-partisan support. The Republican Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee have inserted 10-20-30 into 12 funding accounts -- 9 Agricultural accounts, 1 Commerce, Justice, 1 Interior, Environment, and 1 Financial Services and General Government -- of the 2017 Appropriations Bill.

10-20-30 is helpful to predominately Hispanic communities in states like Arizona and New Mexico; Native American communities in states like South Dakota and Alaska; White communities in states like Kentucky and West Virginia; and Black, White and Hispanic communities throughout South Carolina. It is an efficient and effective way to assist citizens and communities along the I -- 95 Corridor, and throughout South Carolina; and It removes partisan political decision making from the funding process.

Jim is working hard to make 10-20-30 permanent law and more broadly applied.

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