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The Trump administration has released yet another craven attack on the poor: A proposed plan to gut the food assistance program millions of Americans rely on to feed themselves—just days before the holidays.
This latest attack would impose draconian work requirements on men and women seeking food assistance that have been proven to have a devastating impact on the working poor. It’s cruel, spineless, and utterly immoral.
That the Trump administration is announcing this plan just days before the holiday season, when families are joining together to celebrate, is despicable.
While the Trump administration and extremist politicians argue the nation’s poor aren’t working hard enough or can pull themselves out of poverty, they also refuse to raise wages, deny people access to care, and dismantle safety net programs like food assistance vital to their survival.
There are millions of poor people, largely children, relying on food assistance to meet their basic needs every single day. Yet extremist politicians continue to attack the poorest among us whether they be white, red, black, or brown. Through this policy violence, they are keeping people in poverty while ensuring the wealthy stay rich.
Forward together, not one step back,
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis
President of Repairers of the Breach & Director of the Kairos Center
Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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