
Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy
In the wealthiest country in the world, there’s no reason anyone should be poor. Period.
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Fran Quigley directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law.

In the wealthiest country in the world, there’s no reason anyone should be poor. Period.

Rev. Angela Cowser, a cofounder of the Institute for Christian Socialism, argues that a society rooted in the dictates of the Gospel would look radically different from the one we have now. There is a name for what that change should look like: socialism.

We don’t have to leave ourselves at the mercy of the most profitable sector on Earth to get the drugs we need. We must nationalize the pharmaceutical industry and turn the medicines millions rely on into public goods.