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Joining the Call to End Economic Inequality
Pope Francis
adds voice for
change
of every man, woman and child to
have the basics o f food, shelter,
clothing, health care and a decent
education.
With his efforts through the
Affordable Care Act to extend
by M arc H. M orial
health insurance to millions of
T h ro u g h o u t h is ­
previously uncovered Americans,
tory, the eradication of
as well as his calls for universal
poverty has been a
pre-school and a raise in the mini­
professed goal of most
mum wage, President Obama has
progressive-minded political and also focused on efforts to end in­
religious leaders.
come inequality.
V oices ranging from Jesus,
But, as we finish another holiday
Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, season, dominated it seems by ram­
F ra n k lin R o o se v e lt, L yndon pant consumerism, we are faced with
Johnson and Nelson Mandela have a worldwide epidemic of poverty.
asserted in their own way the right
According to the Global Issues
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website, “Almost half the world — ries which assume economic growth,
over three billion people — live on encouraged by a free market, will
less than $2.50 a day. The poorest 40 inevitably succeed in bringing about
percent of the w orld’s population greater justice and inclusiveness in
accounts for 5 percent of global the world. This opinion, which has
income. The richest 20 percent ac­ never been confirmed by the facts,
counts for three-quarters of world expresses a crude and naive trust in
income.”
the goodness o f those wielding
Here in America, nearly 50 million e co n o m ic p o w e r and in the
people live in poverty. This in­ sacralized workings of the prevail­
cludes almost one in four children. ing economic system. Meanwhile,
In a world o f plenty and a nation the excluded are still waiting.”
as rich as ours, there is no excuse for
Many of those excluded are found
this. But the demands of the com­ waiting in America. They wait while
passionate and the cries of the poor some in Congress would cut $8 bil­
continue to be drowned out by the lion from food stamps, or cut off
industrialized world’s fixation with benefits for more than a million long­
materialism and the rising clamor term unemployed citizens.
and clout o f the rich and powerful
They wait while the President’s
for more, often at the expense of the proposal and the econom ic w is­
less fortunate.
dom o f a raise in the m inim um
While there is no reason to be­ wage continue to languish on
lieve these conditions will substan­ Capitol Hill. They wait while work­
tially change anytime soon, we are ing jo b s for wages too low to sup­
encouraged that another prominent port the basic needs o f their fam i­
voice has been added to the calls for lies. They wait while some in Con­
change - Pope Francis.
gress continue to resist transpor­
Since his election as the new tation and infrastructure funding
Pope on March 13, Pope Francis has and the good paying jobs that
placed a renewed emphasis on the would result.
Catholic Church’s responsibility to
We must not forget the millions
assist the poor.
who continue to suffer, who remain
The new Pope recently spoke unemployed and who have yet to
passionately about the “widening recover from the worst economic
gap between those who have more downturn since the Great Depres­
and those who must be content with sion.
the crumbs.”
Marc H. M orial is president and
He added, “Some people con­ chief executive officer o f the N a­
tinue to defend trickle-down theo­ tional Urban League.