Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill expressing the sense of Congress “that the United States has a moral responsibility to meet the needs of those persons, groups and communities that are impoverished, disadvantaged or otherwise in poverty” and calling for the U.S. to “set a national goal of cutting poverty in half over the next 10 years using a strategy that promotes good jobs at livable wages.” Read the bill.
Published on: January 23, 2008
The statement released by Congressperson Barbara Lee, the author of the bill, upon House passage, can be read here: http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/50024. A video of her comments during the debate of the bill is here: http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/01/22/barbara-lee-speaks-on-her-anti-poverty-bill/.