More Families Face "Heat or Eat" Choice This Winter
New Standard: Over the next few months, families across the country will be deciding which comes first: staying warm or staying fed. Heating-fuel costs have soared in recent years, now rivaling food, health care and other essential expenses squeezing low-income households.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3980
In the world's wealthiest, most-developed nation, the fact that low-income people have to face this choice - among all the other terrible choices they face - is a faith issue. How are we treating "the least of these who are members of my family" (Matt 25:45)? As we celebrate the birth of a child whose parents were turned away from every warm place and forced to give birth in a dirty hovel in a strange land, as a national community we should be more compelled to stop this crime against humanity and against our faith.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3980
In the world's wealthiest, most-developed nation, the fact that low-income people have to face this choice - among all the other terrible choices they face - is a faith issue. How are we treating "the least of these who are members of my family" (Matt 25:45)? As we celebrate the birth of a child whose parents were turned away from every warm place and forced to give birth in a dirty hovel in a strange land, as a national community we should be more compelled to stop this crime against humanity and against our faith.
Labels: Economic Justice, Politics
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Topical Follow-up:
Nearly One in Five U.S. Latinos ‘Food Insecure’
"The threat of hunger hangs more heavily over Latino households than their white counterparts, and advocates trace the stark inequality to economic, social and bureaucratic barriers."
Read the whole story at: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4001
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