The Rev William Barber and the Rev Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, speak at the National Civil Rights museum on 3 April.
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In 2013, Callie Greer’s daughter Venus died in her arms after a battle with breast cancer. If caught early, the five-year survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is close to 100%. But Venus’s cancer went undiagnosed for months because she couldn’t afford health insurance. She lived in Alabama, a state that refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Venus’s death is not an isolated incident – more than 250,000 people like her die in the United States from poverty and related issues every year.
Access to healthcare is just one of the issues facing the 140 million people who live in poverty in the US today. Over the past two years, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has carried out a listening tour in dozens of states across […]
We need a new FDR style government now to stop the people like Trump and his voters from stealing from the poor to bloat the pockets of the rich. I have worked hard all my life and have little to show for it, and prices keep going up and up and up, and frankly I will die in poverty if I keep living here in this dystopia, but I see no way out unless we vote for social progressives. The capitalist system we have is broken and we must change it, NOW, not later when it is too late.