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We are in a moral crisis! 50 million people across the nation will experience some form of voter suppression. If we ever needed to vote for justice and democracy, we sure do need to vote now! #OurVotesAreDemands
50 million people will experience extreme poverty because the minimum wage has not changed in over a decade! #OurVotesAreDemands
20 million people live with the constant threat of being thrown back into poverty because of the failure to continue policies that have now expired. If we ever needed to vote for democracy & justice we sure do need to vote now!
"In Washington DC and Maryland we serve over 1,100 food insecure families... in an affluent county hundreds of people line up every week for two grocery bags and these people work two jobs." - Bishop Budde #OurVotesAreDemands
"It's a policy decision that families live pay check to pay check... that people don't have access to clean water & families do not have access to affordable healthcare." - Sheila Katz, National Council of Jewish Women
"When we share what we have, there is abundance! There is enough for.. living wages, affordable housing, safe and affordable healthcare.. to ensure thriving and prosperity for all." Rev. Terri Hord Owens, President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
"What we have here is welfare for the rich & I'm tired of paying subsidies for corporations. People are dying because they are not covered [with healthcare] in Alabama. We're not surviving we are dying." Rev. Tonny Algood
"Individuals, children and families.. are vulnerable due to poverty, vulnerable due to a lack of proper healthcare and adequate resources, congress must act now!.. Do what is right!" Bishop Vashti McKenzie, Interim President of the National Council of Churches
"The child tax-credit helped provide a stable living arrangement, [and] now that the child tax-credit is over.. living in a motel trying to pay night to night, that is a reality that I live.." Nadiyah Patterson, Baltimore, MD
".. 16% hike in poperty taxes in DC this year and I'm 70 [years old] trying to pay taxes that are $4,000 on social security, tell me how to do that!" Angie Whitehearst, Washington, DC
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