"Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice"

“Before COVID-19, nearly 700 people died everyday because of poverty and inequality in this country. The frontlines of this pandemic will be the poor and dispossessed - those who do not have access to healthcare, housing, water, decent wages, stable work or - and those who are continuing to work in this crisis, meeting our health care and other needs.”

“We cannot return to normal. Addressing the depth of the crises that have been revealed in this pandemic means enacting, expanding social welfare programs, ensuring access to water and sanitation, cash assistance to poor and low income families, good jobs,s and an annual income and protecting our democracy. It means ensuring that our abundants are used for the general welfare, instead of war, walls, and the wealthy.”

“It should not have taken a pandemic to raise these resources. In June 2019, we presented a Poor People’s Moral Budget to the House Budget Committee, showing that we can meet these needs for this entire country. If you had taken up this Moral Budget, we would have already moved towards infusing more than $1.2 trillion into the economy to invest in health care, good jobs, living wages, housing, water and sanitation services and more.”