THE REAL EPIDEMIC IS POVERTY.

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      The article offers information on the challenges faced by the poor and low-income people in the U.S. due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include risk of losing access to food, shelter, education and housing; moral crisis of poverty amid vast wealth, inseparable from the injustice of systemic racism, ecological devastation and militarized war economy; and the role of antipoverty programs like Medicaid or the earned income tax credit in reducing poverty.