‘Missing In Action’: Congress Ignores America’s Poverty Crisis

Jennifer Bendery writes for The Huffington Post: “At a time when Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing outrage over canceled White House tours, something more deserving of outrage is taking place: tens of millions of the nation’s most vulnerable are taking hits on all sides. The nation’s poverty rate is frozen at a high of 15 percent. And lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, for the most part, aren’t even talking about it.”