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for the Abolition of Poverty

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Our online publication about the abolition of poverty and the creation of an economic system that works for all of us
"Together, we can be the end of poverty."

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2024 MLK Day Open Letter on Poverty
"New Phase of the Struggle" WHY ABOLISHING IMPOVERISHMENT IS CENTRAL TO BOTH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND TO OUR NATION'S SURVIVAL

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Chained to the System
"We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them."
Said to Edward R. Murrow by Comment made by a Florida farmer in the 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame, about those who pick the food for the people of “the best fed nation on earth.”

Today, when we think about poverty, we think in terms of individuals and the adverse circumstances impacting their lives. But the thing is, being consigned to poverty is almost never the result of an individual's choices. There's an entire system at work, one that's the direct descendant of the institution of slavery, and that, despite its use of different mechanisms, achieves results that are strikingly similar to those achieved when slavery in the United States was not only legal but the engine upon which our economy ran. In fact, many historians assert that slavery itself was the key to our nation moving from debt-ridden startup to the wealthiest in the world.

Entrenched poverty, like institutionalized slavery, is a massive mechanism, one that, until it's abolished, endangers the viability of our nation. The entire cannibalistic system rests on a foundation comprised of three pillars of deprivation and exploitation — Housing Instability (homes people don’t own), Wage Insufficiency (jobs they can neither live on nor retire from) and Pricing Inequity (charging more of those who don’t have it so we can give discounts to those who don’t need them). And the result is a society that can't sustain.
In that sense, we're all chained to the system.

We envision a day when that system is abolished -- when all will be free to lead lives of vitality and agency. But until that day, we're committed to doing everything we can to help people escape it. In the same way that Abolitionists achieved the unimaginable, ending slavery, we, if we have the will, can finish what they started.
Together, we can be the end of poverty.

Leaders of the UGRR -- 2024 United States Postal Service Stamp Series.

EPiOG (End Poverty in Our Generation) Initiative
Empowering Everyday Action to End Poverty

 Red Mountain Foundry
 Economic Justice Incubator

Fulcrum Fund
Benevolence and Strategic Support Fund

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