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Katrina Showed Us That Disaster Strikes the Poor the Hardest
Take Action: Sign the Pledge to End Poverty Now!
A year ago, Katrina uncovered an issue that many Americans forgot—that millions of us live in poverty in the wealthiest nation in the world. As we near the celebration of Labor Day, we must remember those individuals, especially in the Gulf Coast, who are prevented from working and are living a life of poverty with lack of economic opportunity, inadequate supply of affordable housing, and unequal access to quality health care.
Many American workers are living in poverty in the Gulf Coast areas and nationwide. In fact, across the country, approximately 2.9 million people living below the poverty line are full-time workers. The effects of living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty – the inability to get home and business loans, bad schools, poor access to health care, homelessness and substandard housing, etc. – affect all residents of those neighborhoods, not just those living below the poverty line themselves.
Hurricane Katrina brought the attention of the media and the American public to the tragedy of extreme poverty in both cities and rural areas throughout the country. Take action to support a working agenda to end poverty!
1. Read the pledge below.
2. Fill out your information in the form on the right.
3. Click "Sign now"!
It's that easy to pledge your support to create a working agenda to end poverty once and for all!
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