Why Are There Poor Americans?

Why are there poor Americans, who live in the richest nation in the history of humanity? Why are there food pantries, patronized by Americans who have jobs? Why are Americans with jobs living in homeless shelters? In America, the richest nation on Earth, there should be no hungry Americans and no homeless Americans.

Charity and philanthropy are good, but are band-aids that don't change the system. "The poor ye have always with you," says the Bible, and thousands of years of charity and philanthropy haven't changed that. It's the same old same old, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, millennium after millennium.

The only way to change the eternal pattern is to raise living standards for *all* Americans. America has the wealth to do that. And America knows the way to do that.

Systemic change *begins* with strengthening labor unions, the #1 proven way historically to put more money in the pockets of Americans for the long term. Not charity. Not philanthropy. Not welfare and food stamps. LABOR UNIONS!

There's a reason "labor unions" are such dirty words in America:

BECAUSE THEY WORK! THEY ACTUALLY CHANGE THE SYSTEM. THEY PUT AN END TO FOOD PANTRIES AND HOMELESS SHELTERS.