“Why do we hear so little from politicians about death by poverty. Why is there no Surgeon General’s Warning on a low wage job?” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

“I often skipped meals with my husband, or he would eat one day, and I would eat the next. This isn’t the America I want for my children.” No one should have to sacrifice their health to survive. #MoralPovertyActionCongress klkntv.com/hastings-woman…

We’re sending off a delegation from the #PoorPeoplesCampaign to a meeting at the White House, including MD tri-chair Rabbi Alana Suskin. 🙌🙌 Somebody’s hurting our people, it’s gone on far too long, and we won’t be silent anymore. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PovertyIsDeath

Yesterday the #PoorPeoplesCampaign visited 400 members of Congress to demand they address the crisis of death by poverty: the 4th leading cause of death in the US. Thank you Eleanor #DCStatehood Holmes Norton for a fruitful meeting, we look forward to our next meeting and to working together!

Day 2 of the #MoralPovertyActionCongress was a success 💪 We are mobilizing and organizing from the bottom up to demand we end the death sentence of poverty in America.

The Michigan Poor People's Campaign is one of 30+ state groups joining together at the #MoralPovertyActionCongress to end the death sentence of poverty in America. Mobilizing and organizing together, we won’t be silent anymore. fox2detroit.com/news/activists…

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign Poor People's Campaign Rep. Stephen F. Lynch Rep. Seth Moulton Press Office Ed Markey Elizabeth Warren

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign Poor People's Campaign Rep. Richard Neal Rep. Jim McGovern Congressman Bill Keating Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign Poor People's Campaign Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Lori Trahan Katherine Clark

Poor People's Campaign kids! Everybody’s got a right to live! Lift from the bottom so everyone rises! We won’t be silent anymore! #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Huge props to the folks at @KairosCenterNYC and Repairers of the Breach for an inspiring, grounding, sobering, educational, and joyful #moralpovertyactioncongress. We are fired up and ready for the next steps in our fight to end #DeathByPoverty. Poor People's Campaign #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Art tells our story and honors those in this movement - both those who came before us and those still fighting with us. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here is our amazing Trichair Savina Martin! Poor People's Campaign #MoralPovertyActionCongress #poorpeoplescampaign

"... Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton University, estimates that we could lift everyone within our borders above the poverty line for less than 1% of our national GDP – $177bn." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Between 2018-2020, there were 3,266,000 poor and low-income people in MICHIGAN- 33% of the population. To meet their basic needs, a household with 2 adults and 2 children needs to earn over $27/hour. However, the current minimum wage is just $9.97/hour.

#MoralPovertyActionCongress 2023 is a wrap! But we will keep moving #forwardtogether w/ Poor People's Campaign

If it is OK to solve the debt ceiling crisis out the pockets of the poor, it is OK to pay a living wage, Provide Healthcare, and affordable housing out of the pockets of the under taxed, uber wealthy. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #

The fourth leading cause of death in the US? Cumulative poverty | Rev William Barber and Gregg Gonsalves theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

55 Years After the Launch of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices inequality.org/great-divide/p…

Flint residents standing up for environmental justice! Flint Residents Demand Federal Action After Michigan Court Upholds Permit for Asphalt Plant commondreams.org/news/michigan-…

From June 19-21, our #MoralPovertyActionCongress brought together impacted people and faith leaders from 30+ states demanding action to address death by poverty and say: we won’t be silent anymore. Photo credit: Shanaz Deen