Taking Action to End Poverty

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Step Forward

Health Coverage -- Quit Stalling and Get to Work
By John Bouman, President

Tens of thousands of people die every year because they do not have health insurance-twice as many as are victims of homicides. This is the most shocking of the many reasons why the nation needs to quit stalling and get to work to accomplish comprehensive health care reform.

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Events

The State of Poverty

  • Number of children: 12.9 million
    ...four times the number of all the children in Illinois
  • Number of seniors 65 and over: 3.6 million
    ...the same as the entire population of Oklahoma
  • Number of women: 14.6 million
    ...the entire population of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa combined
  • Number reporting a disability: 8.0 million
    ...a population larger than the State of Massachusetts
  • Number of homeless: 3.5 million
    ...twice the population of Nebraska
 

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