Survey of 2024 Senate campaign websites: on Welfare & Poverty


Barbara Lee: Ending poverty is a moral and economic imperative

As a member of the powerful federal spending committee, Congresswoman Lee has led the fight to preserve and expand critical safety net programs like unemployment insurance, housing assistance, child care, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She firmly believes that ending poverty in the world's rich and most powerful nation is a moral and economic imperative. Additionally, Lee has long championed global poverty eradication efforts.
Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website Lee.House.gov Jul 19, 2022

Preston Love: Address Black poverty to address lack of Black voting

Black Lives, Black Poverty and Black Votes Matter: Protests to bring attention to all these critical Black matters should be non-stop. The efforts to address and eradicate these injustices should be our community's full time effort. My focus is directed toward our votes (or lack thereof). It is my contention that our poverty is the dominant factor that has created the horror of the other two "matters," lives and poverty. In my recent book "Economic Cataracts," I develop the relationships between our poverty and our dismal voting, and suggest the immediate and long term need for Economic Inclusion. Our community needs wealth. Stated simply, poor people have trouble caring or participating in a system that is failing them. Poor people are trying to survive or surviving in a small but separate crime-filled culture within. Voting is not on the list of their to do's. I don't agree with this logic. In fact, I believe we are making things worse by buying into this "I could care less" scenario.
Source: 2024 Nebraska Senate campaign website 4urban.org Feb 2, 2024

John Deaton: Mother held family together with food stamps, welfare

John was born in Highland Park in 1967 into generational poverty at a time of extreme racial tension and violence in the suffering city of Detroit. He was one of six siblings born to one mother and four different fathers. The fathers were rarely in the picture, but despite the challenges of poverty and abuse, John's mother held the family together with the help of food stamps, welfare, and odd jobs whenever possible.
Source: 2024 MA Senate campaign website JohnDeatonForSenate.com Mar 5, 2024

Karla May: St. Louis Philanthropic Organization: involved for 25 years

Aside from her legislative duties, Sen. May is president and board member of the St. Louis Philanthropic Organization. She has been involved with the organization for the past 25 years, helping award grants to agencies focused on education and programs that benefit the residents of the City of St. Louis. She is an executive board member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) St. Louis Chapter and serves as an international at-large board member.
Source: 2024 Missouri Senate campaign website senate.mo.gov Aug 8, 2024

Laphonza Butler: Address housing shortage & decades-long racial disparities

Senator Butler is concerned about the shortage of affordable housing, which has led to severe homelessness in California. As a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee, she is working to increase access to housing and combat the decades-long racial disparities that exist in our housing market. She is concerned that private-equity firms and hedge funds have taken advantage of the housing crisis, which has led to skyrocketing housing costs and a shortage of available homes.
Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website butler.senate.gov Sep 16, 2024

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Candidates and political leaders on Welfare & Poverty:
Candidates for President & Vice-President:
V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(I-CA)
Chase Oliver(L-GA)
Dr.Jill Stein(D-MA)
Former Pres.Donald Trump(R-FL)
Sen.J.D.Vance(R-OH)
Gov.Tim Walz(D-MN)
Dr.Cornel West(I-NJ) 		2024 presidential primary contenders:
Pres.Joe_Biden(D-DE)
N.D.Gov.Doug Burgum(R)
N.J.Gov.Chris_Christie(R)
Fla.Gov.Ron_DeSantis(R)
S.C.Gov.Nikki_Haley(R)
Ark.Gov.Asa_Hutchinson(R)
Former V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
U.S.Rep.Dean_Phillips(D-MN)
Vivek_Ramaswamy(R-OH)
S.C.Sen.Tim_Scott(R)
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