Our country faces a material and moral crisis - and Republicans are offering only resentment and
false solutions
Opinion
US politics
These midterm elections have enormous stakes for poor and low-income Americans
Reverend William Barber and Karen Dolan
Our wellbeing is on the ballot this November. Amid a pandemic, rising inflation, and deepening financial instability, we need a strong commitment from all candidates to our children, families and planet.
At the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/02/midterm-elections-poor-and-low-income-americans
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Members of Congress – some of them – heard our voices. They made investments – from the expanded child tax credit to healthcare to infrastructure – that brought unemployment to historic lows and reduced child poverty to its lowest measure on record.
Prior to the pandemic, the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival estimated that 140 million of us were poor and low-wealth. The American Rescue Plan and other investments brought that down to 112 million last year – a huge step forward.
But even this help left one-third of us still living in serious economic hardship. Even worse, it was temporary. With those programs now expiring, and the cost of living continuing to climb, poverty is again on the rise.
What have we learned? That poverty is a political choice. It drops when the government commits to reducing it. And it rises when that commitment vanishes.
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