As you read this, rich and powerful people in Washington, DC are trying to determine not whether they should cut programs designed to help low and middle-income Americans, but by how much they should cut those programs. The cuts are being made at the behest of the lobby organizations and media operations owned by rich people and large corporations. If that isn't a class war, what is? There is a class war being fought in Washington, DC right now, but it's extremely one-sided and so the outcome is obvious, since there is no way to win a class war unless you fight one.
A coalition of West Virginia organizations -- from the Catholic diocese and state Council of Churches to the NAACP, Nurses Association, AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood and a Quaker humanitarian agency appealed to Congress that "Cuts to programs that help low-income people meet their basic needs or provide them with opportunity to obtain decent education and employment would inevitably increase poverty and hardship," the coalition wrote in a joint letter. " ... The United States already has higher levels of poverty and inequality than most other Western nations." West Virginia's median household income is $37,423, well below the U.S. average of above $50,000. Nearly one-fourth of Mountain State children live in poverty.
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