Michigan Poor People's Campaign

Flint residents standing up for environmental justice! Flint Residents Demand Federal Action After Michigan Court Upholds Permit for Asphalt Plant commondreams.org/news/michigan-…

From June 19-21, our #MoralPovertyActionCongress brought together impacted people and faith leaders from 30+ states demanding action to address death by poverty and say: we won’t be silent anymore. Photo credit: Shanaz Deen

The fourth leading cause of death in the US? Cumulative poverty | Rev William Barber and Gregg Gonsalves theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#MoralPovertyActionCongress 2023 is a wrap! But we will keep moving #forwardtogether w/ @UniteThePoor

55 Years After the Launch of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices inequality.org/great-divide/p…

“Why do we hear so little from politicians about death by poverty. Why is there no Surgeon General’s Warning on a low wage job?” @RevDrBarber

If it is OK to solve the debt ceiling crisis out the pockets of the poor, it is OK to pay a living wage, Provide Healthcare, and affordable housing out of the pockets of the under taxed, uber wealthy. #PoorPeoplesCampaign #

Between 2018-2020, there were 3,266,000 poor and low-income people in MICHIGAN- 33% of the population. To meet their basic needs, a household with 2 adults and 2 children needs to earn over $27/hour. However, the current minimum wage is just $9.97/hour.

"... Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton University, estimates that we could lift everyone within our borders above the poverty line for less than 1% of our national GDP – $177bn." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign @UniteThePoor @RepRichardNeal @RepMcGovern @USRepKeating @RepAuchincloss

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign @UniteThePoor @RepStephenLynch @RepMoulton @SenMarkey @SenWarren

@UniteThePoor kids! Everybody’s got a right to live! Lift from the bottom so everyone rises! We won’t be silent anymore! #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign

We’re sending off a delegation from the #PoorPeoplesCampaign to a meeting at the White House, including MD tri-chair Rabbi Alana Suskin. 🙌🙌 Somebody’s hurting our people, it’s gone on far too long, and we won’t be silent anymore. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PovertyIsDeath

MAPPC making our demands known to our congressional delegations! We demand an end to #DeathByPoverty . We demand the #ThirdReconstruction. #MoralPovertyActionCongress #PoorPeoplesCampaign @UniteThePoor @RepPressley @RepLoriTrahan @WhipKClark

Art tells our story and honors those in this movement - both those who came before us and those still fighting with us. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here is our amazing Trichair Savina Martin! @UniteThePoor #MoralPovertyActionCongress #poorpeoplescampaign

“I often skipped meals with my husband, or he would eat one day, and I would eat the next. This isn’t the America I want for my children.” No one should have to sacrifice their health to survive. #MoralPovertyActionCongress klkntv.com/hastings-woman…

The @MichiganPPC is one of 30+ state groups joining together at the #MoralPovertyActionCongress to end the death sentence of poverty in America. Mobilizing and organizing together, we won’t be silent anymore. fox2detroit.com/news/activists…

Yesterday the #PoorPeoplesCampaign visited 400 members of Congress to demand they address the crisis of death by poverty: the 4th leading cause of death in the US. Thank you @EleanorNorton for a fruitful meeting, we look forward to our next meeting and to working together!

Huge props to the folks at @KairosCenterNYC and @BRepairers for an inspiring, grounding, sobering, educational, and joyful #moralpovertyactioncongress. We are fired up and ready for the next steps in our fight to end #DeathByPoverty. @UniteThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign

Day 2 of the #MoralPovertyActionCongress was a success 💪 We are mobilizing and organizing from the bottom up to demand we end the death sentence of poverty in America.