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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 everybod ....
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 ....
You can do anything. Grab them by the reporter the president elect told you what . Let there be an arms race, we will outmatch them at every pass. I think you will be very impressed. Good morning. Welcome to am joy. Im jonathan, in for joy. With the close of the leap year, weve been looking for a word to encapsulate all 366 days s os n unexpected events of trump quotes and brexit and numerous attacks across the globe and the election this year, this year has been hmm what is the word . Should i buy a vowel . Maybe i will phone a friend. Miriam webster . Yes. They say the word of the year is surreal. The dictionary said surreal is looked up both in tragedy and surprise. Well leave it to you to decide which was the common denominator behind the popular word search. It seems many people have literally searched for some way to define the afternoon unbelievable shocking nonsensical dreamlike events of 2016 which continue even on this last day of this year with this tweet from donald trump. ....
Lined up behind him any way. Theres a reason why theyve been perfectly calm, even zen about trump since, even given questions about his grip on reality. I know that two different people from the white house or at least saying they are from the white house and turned out to be a white house number called somebody i know in the last several weeks to say we are deeply concerned about his Mental Health. Listen, what happens to a person whos under the pressure and threat he is and i believe what accounts for that is flynns imminent flip or apparent flip, willingness to tell the story. None of that matters to republicans on capitol hill. Not trumps insults against them, not his racist retweets, not his overall erratic behavior which outgoing senator bob corker, the only republican to vote against the tax bill overnight has described as turning the white house into an adult day care center. Theres a reason that republicans dont seem to ca ....