With unemployment skyrocketing to almost 15 . Job losses are concentrated at the lorain end of the income scale. By early april, anastonishing amount have been furloughed or layoff. The poor are less likely to have insurance and more likely to live in close quarters where the disease is easy to spread. Its been said that covid is like a guided missile attacking the poor. We will discuss what we as a nation can do to help. Joining me now, cochairman of the Poor Peoples Campaign and author of the forthcoming book, we are called to be a movement. This issue of poverty predates the covid19 pandemic. How has it made it worse . Well the fact of the matter is, pandemics exploit and live in the fissures and in the wounds of society, and in america, we have great wounds when it comes to systemic racism and poverty. Two things that you can never separate, even though we have the look at it across the board and how it impacts everybody. Before the pandemic, we had 140 Million People who were poor