Why has our government abandoned us? That’s what poor and low-wealth people asked members of Congress during a briefing Wednesday on issues that included poverty, immigrant and Indigenous rights, ecological devastation, the denial of health care and militarism.
“We aren’t poor because we’re lazy. We’re poor because the laws and policies in this country are stacked against us,” said Aaron Scott, co-founder of Chaplains on the Harbor in Washington state, who spoke to the needs for universal health care, good jobs, living wages and guaranteed incomes. “If that can’t be done now, make sure we can vote to get people in there who can and will make this happen.”
