I hadn't heard that comparison about the CEO v. the minimum wage worker before.

In my perhaps naive way, I believe in speaking your truth. "This is how poverty affects/affected me" (if you've been through it. Or even "This is how the poverty of others effects me and how I understand it effects them and the rest of us.") Is writing letters to the editor hopeless these days? Blog or podcast? Certainly, friends, family co-workers. Try to speak not just to the converted, but if you're a big blowhard like me, be careful what battles you pick.

This is a good time to talk about the cost of the war and the poverty as both are coming up in the new congress.

Fight the Powder!