Emphasis Preaching Journal
One Out of Two Americans Has Low-Income Status: Why Is There So Much Silence and What to Do About It
Political Pulpit
The title is the subject for this column, a topic that the lectionary texts for March, April, and May compel us to consider. As a nation we are rapidly becoming an economy with a socio-economic class structure resembling Third-World nations. According to recent U.S. Census Bureau data we have a class of incredible wealth at the top, an increasingly smaller group in the middle-income bracket, and nearly half of us are categorized as low income. Low income here is defined as including those earning between 100% to 199% of the poverty level.
