Flush with victory after win in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney appeared on CNN Wednesday morning and said this: "I'm in the race because I care about Americans. I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there."
We here at St. Francis Inn Ministries are very concerned about the very poor. We experience them every day in our ministry. We walk with them and listen to their stories.
As has been widely reported, a full 15 percent of Americans live below the poverty line (which is $18,530 for a family of three) and 6.7 percent of Americans live in deep poverty (defined as half the poverty line.) Half of all Americans are either poor or low-income, living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Unlike middle-income Americans, low-income and poor Americans often do not have the resources to recover from any economic hurdles. Without any kind of savings or other assets, these hurdles can level low-income and poor households facing very difficult circumstances, even homelessness.
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