October 16, 2020
Congress Must Deliver COVID-19 Relief
Where is the concern for the families of the more than 215,000 Americans who have lost their lives to the coronavirus?
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Pamela Rush was a good mother and a caring neighbor.
She was also a poor woman in rural Alabama, fighting a predatory lender who was fleecing her over the broken, dangerous trailer she and her children lived in. As part of the Poor People’s Campaign, Pamela gave heartbreaking testimony before Congress in 2018 on behalf of roughly 140 million poor and low-income Americans.
Life wasn’t easy for this 43 percent of the American public before the pandemic, and it’s gotten harder now. Despite her fighting spirit, Pamela tragically perished from COVID-19 this summer.
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