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Poverty line in 2018. A number that surely grown with unemployment skyrocketing to as almost as 15 . The lower end of the income scale of jobs loss. April, 40 of lowwage workers had been laid off or furloughed. More likely to live in close quarters where the disease could easily spread. As thomas freedan had said the pandemic attacks the poor. Joining me now is Bishop William barber and author of the book we are called to be a movement. Bishop barber, this issue predates the covid19 pandemic, how has the pandemic made it worse . Well, the fact the matter is pandemic lives in the wounds of society and we have certainly great wounds when it comes to systematic racism and systematic poverty. Two things you cant separate even though we have to look at it across the board and how it impacts everybody. Before the pandemic we had 140 Million People who were poor and low income. Pove ....