“Consider that the official poverty threshold of $22,000 per year for a family of four implies a “poverty” wage of $11 an hour. … The flaw here is the implicit assumption that all minimum-wage workers not only have families to support, but do so single-handedly.”read more
“About 4,000 pastors nationwide, including 91 in Tennessee, signed a letter titled ‘Listen to Your Pastors,’ urging Washington not to cut welfare and charity programs for the poor. It was penned by several pastors and circulated by Sojourners, a Washington, D.C.-based Christian social justice organization.” National debt debate divides church leaders