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Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts
By Emily McFarlan Miller | 13 hours ago
Protestors gather during a demonstration against the Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act, June 21, 2017, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/REUTERS
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Its numbers come from an estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that shows more than half of those cuts — a total $2.5 trillion over 10 years — will come from programs that help Americans with low or moderate incomes.
There are more than 350,000 churches, mosques, synagogues and other religious congregations in the U.S., according to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Bread for the World released its analysis Wednesday (June 21) as crowds gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
It estimates cuts to healthcare alone under the American Health Care Act, its proposed replacement, will take away $2,000 a year in services from every person living at or near the poverty line for the next 10 years.
