leaving home for food. the sequester cut funding for the government s senior nutrition program by 5%. that works out to a $40 million hit to meals on wheels alone, the respected program that s delivered food to seniors for the last six decades. or think of the people who rely on public housing in washington. they make just $13,000 a year. that figure is so low because 40% of them aren t even working age. they re children or seniors. another 25% are disabled. the new cuts will put some of those people out into the streets. and if the sequester continues, about 125,000 public housing residents will face the same fate according to government estimates. now, look, i get the politics here. the poor and the homeless don t have the loudest voices in our democracy. they are, in a fundamental sense, politically invisible. their struggles are typically measured as merely a cost for the rest of us, not as a human or moral toll. and because of their powerlessness, washington only