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Poverty Abolitionists

Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times

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Poverty Abolitionists

Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times

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Our country and the world have made dramatic progress against poverty in recent decades, but the second Trump administration has thrown progress into reverse. David Beckmann calls us to push back against MAGA and restore progress against poverty.
David is an economist, pastor, and activist. He was awarded the World Food Prize for leadership that led to substantial reductions in hunger. Drawing on stories from his own life and the struggles of poor communities around the world, Beckmann distills five essential insights and ten strategies to get progress against poverty going again.

These include legislative advocacy, volunteering and financial contributions to election campaigns, action in defense of democracy, and needed reforms in American spirituality and religion. He invites people of faith, seekers, and skeptics alike to deepen their solidarity with those in need and with a threatened planet.

He highlights data that prove poverty is solvable, confronts the problems that our country and the world now face, and calls for a new poverty abolition movement-similar in scale and determination to the movement that ended slavery.
At the heart of this book is hope: hope grounded in evidence, history, and the countless efforts of communities and advocates who continue to push for justice. With a foreword by travel writer Rick Steves, Poverty Abolitionists offers both a practical roadmap and a stirring moral challenge. It is a clarion call to action for activists, policy makers, and ordinary citizens who care about the future of humanity and seek to build a fairer, freer, and more just world.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rick Steves

Part 1: Five Empowering Insights
1. We Can Virtually End Poverty
2. Most Poor People are Working Hard to Get Ahead
3. Poverty Does Tremendous Damage
4. Looking Back Can Help Us Chart a Path Forward
5. We Need Policies that Provide Both Help and Opportunity

Part 2: Ten Effective Strategies
6. Work, Enterprise, and Charity
7. Legislative Advocacy Works
8. Elections Shape the Future
9. Struggles for Justice
10. Giving Organizations a Political Edge
11. Defanging the Internet
12. Healing Divisions
13. Love-and-Justice Healing Communities
14. Educated Faith
15. Faith in a Forgiving God
16. Working for a Better World

Afterword by Eugene Cho

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published May 28 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9798216275916
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 5 b&w images
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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