Poverty should be attacked with the same seriousness and intention to eradicate as we need to display toward Covid. In many ways it too can be a killer, as deaths of despair - suicide, addiction & abuse - increase in its presence. It should not be treated like a secondary problem

Nov 20, 2020 · 12:23 AM UTC

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@ModernWidowClub #widows have been raising awareness of this need! They have much to say about #poverty, #COVID #suicide #depression We are waiting to be heard. Too many are dying and most are MEN. Their surviving widows need a bigger voice. I emailed you our Impact Report.
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#Widowhood is a ROOT CAUSE of American #poverty. 49% of the US 14M #widows earn less than 25K & those with young kids can’t earn over 17K or lose SSI benefits. Formula for failure. Help #widows, no one is looking at the data or researching. @ModernWidowClub has it.
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THIS! 👏👏👏
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And don’t forget the health problems due to lack of quality food & exposure to greater levels of environmental pollutants for impoverished people. Those directly cause deaths too. Not just deaths of despair
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Absolutely
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its literally ridiculous there are people who cant eat vegetables. like.. the richest country in the world has people too poor to eat produce?? also prisoners are fed worse than pets....
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but we need poverty to make people agree to starvation wages
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