Catholic Charities USA Goes to Congress to Urge Action to Address Poverty

CCUSA President Holds Briefing on Hunger and Testifies to House Subcommittee as Agency Directors from Across the Country Meet with Members of Congress

Today was the busiest single day of activity in Catholic Charities USA's Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America, which seeks to cut the U.S. poverty rate in half by 2020. The following events took place on Capitol Hill:

• Briefing on the struggles of 35 million Americans who experience hunger
• Testimony by CCUSA President Rev. Larry Snyder before a House Ways and Means subcommittee on poverty
• Visits to Hill offices by local Catholic Charities agency leaders
• Full-page ad in Roll Call
• Virtual march on Washington in which people from around the country contacted their Members of Congress

Click here to view the entire News Release.
Click here to read Fr. Snyder's testimony to the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Poverty.
Click here to read CCUSA's positions on hunger.

For those of you who participated, please share your experiences below.