[[link removed]] Unequal Suffering: Here's How Congress Should Help
[[link removed]] Jim WallisWe believe that the ultimate test of our discipleship to Jesus Christ is how we
treat the most vulnerable in society, or as Jesus refers to them in Matthew 25,
“the least of these” among us. Amid this COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing more
than ever who is most vulnerable to contracting and dying from this new disease
— and it’s a function of deeply embedded societal structures that create and
perpetuate grotesque racial and economic inequity. As we’ve been saying in
recent weeks, both as the data has made horrifyingly clear and as we’ve seen
whose friends and relatives have disproportionately gotten sick or died of
COVID-19, poverty and racism have become pre-existing conditions that increase
the chances of contracting or dying from this lethal disease.

Make no mistake: While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers
during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally. On the
one hand, Congress should be commended for acting to pass a number of large
relief packages with broad bipartisan support. But the shameful truth of the
situation is that many of society’s most at risk, both before and now in the context of the pandemic, are helped very
little or not at all by recent congressional actions, despite trillions of
dollars of new spending. In this moment, incarcerated individuals, people in
detention, Native Americans, and people experiencing homelessness, as well as
all those affected by the deeply intertwined scourges of racism and/or poverty,
urgently need additional help from Congress in the next relief package. This
help needs to last beyond the immediate short- and medium-term public health
crisis and extend through the economic crisis, which is likely to persist for
significantly longer.

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