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May 18, 2022

One Million COVID-19 Deaths Is a Searing Indictment of Inequality in America

It was poverty that made the pandemic so deadly. We shouldn't compound the tragedy of 1 million COVID-19 deaths by letting it continue.

By Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Tope Folarin

Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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The U.S. has now reached the once unthinkable toll of 1 million deaths from COVID-19. How could this happen in the wealthiest country in the world?

In a word, because of poverty—and the policy choices that perpetuate it. Our task now is to make different choices.

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Read the full article at Newsweek.

Originally in Newsweek.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is a national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival. Tope Folarin is the executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies.

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