America faces many emergencies. The 'border crisis' isn't one of them | Rev William Barber and Dr Liz Theoharis

In today’s America, the real emergency is that a quarter of a million people die from poverty each year

In declaring a national emergency to fund an unnecessary border wall this month, Donald Trump has provoked a conversation about what the word “emergency” actually means.+

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