“Let this serve as a reminder that poverty is a policy choice,” said one advocate. “In the richest country in the world, it is absolutely inexcusable that millions of our children go to school hungry because they are living in poverty.” Surrounded by students, teachers, and advocates, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday afternoon […]
“The priorities of poor and low-income people are on the ballot this election—from healthcare to living wages to social programs that lift the load of poverty and much more,” said Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Less than a month before Election Day, low-income people and allies came together across the United States on […]
Tear gassing refugees at the U.S. border. Ripping kids out of the arms of their parents. Stripping food aid from the nation’s poor and most vulnerable. “Will we tolerate the insatiable greed and cruelty of the billionaire class, whose control over our political system lets them take food out of the mouths of hungry school kids? Or […]
Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday a U.N. report on poverty within the country was “ridiculous.” “In our country, the president, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and city council members actively engage on poverty issues every day,” Haley wrote, in a letter to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent […]