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David Beckmann on Poverty Abolition, Faith, and the Trump Backlash
On this episode of the Jim Wallis Podcast, Jim Wallis talks with David Beckmann, longtime anti-poverty leader, former president of Bread for the World, and author of Poverty Abolitionists, about why poverty is solvable, how faith communities can help end it, and why the Trump administration has created a major setback for low-income people in the U.S. and around the world.
Beckmann argues that progress against poverty is possible through political action, legislative advocacy, charitable work, cross-partisan cooperation, and a deeper theology of a forgiving God. He also explains how cuts to…
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