My venerable Predecessor, Pope Paul VI, accurately described the scandal of underdevelopment as an outrage against humanity. In this sense, in the Encyclical “Populorum Progressio,”he denounced “the lack of material necessities for those who are without the minimum essential for life, the moral deficiencies of those who are mutilated by selfishness” and “oppressive social structures, whether due to the abuses of ownership or to the abuses of power, to the exploitation of workers or to unjust transactions”
Pope Benedict XVI Message for Lent, 2006, Jan. 31, 2006
MCC Legislative Testimony 2017
Testimony on lifting the cap on kids May 2017 (pdf)
MCC Legislative Testimony 2013
Testimony on increasing the minimum wage June, 2013 (pdf)
MCC Legislative Testimony 2011
MCC Federal Advocacy 2011