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Your Help is Needed in the Fight Against Poverty

Dear Friends:

There is a critical financial situation facing our community. Your mind may immediately assume I am referencing the crisis on Wall Street. However, I am taking this day to refocus your attention on global poverty, our longstanding international financial crisis. Poverty is an issue that is of particular interest in Shelby County. The National Poverty rate is 17%. In Shelby County the poverty rate is 20.1%, and the poverty rate for children is 30.6%. It should be our mission to find new and innovative means of addressing this serious issue. The fight against poverty requires attention, collaboration, and action. If we come together as a community in action, we can dismantle, reduce, and perhaps, one day, eliminate global poverty.

In recognition of World Poverty Day, Friday, October 17, please take a few minutes of your time to complete the online survey of the Womens Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Your feedback is essential in helping shape the way that we define poverty. Your contribution to this survey will become a part of the Poverty Impact Statement, drafted by the Womens Foundation for a Greater Memphis. This statement will provide policy makers with guidelines and information that nurture a policy environment sensitive to the fight to eliminate poverty, especially impoverished women and children. Just a few minutes of your time will not only influence policy but also enhance awareness about poverty in our community, our nation, and the world.

I encourage you to reflect upon the perpetual financial crisis of our world, and take the time to fill out the survey for the Womens Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Your time, opinions, and action are greatly appreciated.

"The campaign to make poverty history-a central moral challenge of our age-cannot remain a task for the few, it must become a calling for the many ... Together, we can make real and sufficient progress towards the end of poverty." Kofi Annan, United Nations Ex-Secretary-General

We are called as a community to act together so that we may see an end to the suffering brought on by the effects of poverty in our community.

As always, I remain,

Most sincerely,

Stephen I. Cohen
Member of Congress

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