Your point is not just that people are dying, or suffering, or losing limbs because they can't get to a doctor.
IS POVERTY A DEATH SENTENCE?
I always hesitate to quote somebody who's not here.
Poverty in America is, in fact, a death sentence.
What does it mean for the future of the country--that 21 percent of our kids are living in poverty?
Getting people employed, and consequently healthy, is what your constituents want from you now.
All we need is the political will. I'm hoping you will create that.
Poverty is a death sentence, but it's not just because of the lack of medical care.
But frankly, I think that gives cold comfort to millions and millions of people.
Thank you for understanding the great health threats that more and more Americans suffer because of poverty.
This also comes at a time when the United States has, by far, the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any ...