There are 85 million poor and low-income people who are eligible to vote in this country.

85 million.

And it's time now to wake up that sleeping giant and for them to use their power.

Bishop William J. Barbara II is the President and Senior Lecturer of Repaire

of the Breach and National Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign, a National Call for Moral Revival.

In 2018, he helped relaunch the Poor People's Campaign, which was begun by Reverend Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968,

starting with an historic wave of protests in state capitals and in Washington, D.C.

Since then, that poor people's campaign has continued its incredible work and is launching a 42 week campaign to mobilize 15 million poor low wage voters because low income people have the power to not only decide elections, but also to change the conversation about what is possible in America.

We're going to have a conversation with the Bishop coming up right here on the Michael Still

podcast, right after this. Hey folks, welcome to the Michael Steele podcast. I am excited to have you join us in conversation as always, and I'm particularly happy that you could be with us today as we talk about something that we spend very little time talking about in this country and that is the poor amongst us. As the Lord told us when he walked this earth, we will always have them, which was a charge he's given to us to do something about. And we are really happy to welcome to the conversation today someone who's doing his level best to address poverty in this country and that is the right

Reverend Bishop Barbara welcome Bishop is such a pleasure to have you on the

podcast my friend. Thank you brother still and I'm glad we can be here. Thank you for your voice witness and clarity and as I look sometime with you on the TV as my grandmother did you, just tell him the truth.

So that's a good thing, just tell the truth.

And that's it.

And you know, I have to tell folks, you have been doing that for some time.

I have been an admirer for from a far from. doing that

for some time I have been an admirer for a while and then we we had the opportunity to connect

and have stay connected ever since talking about the mission that you have right now and the work that you're doing right now,

recognizing the number of four people we have in this country,

which is estimated at over 85 million

of our neighbors, friends, and families,

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