Tampa Bay Times
January 20, 2024
![President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on the radio from the Oval Room of the White House in 1941. During an extraordinary 12 years in office, Roosevelt guided the nation through a bleak period of Depression-era unemployment, a severe Midwest drought known as the Dust Bowl and battle against the Nazis and Japanese in World War II. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File) [ HENRY GRIFFIN | AP ]](https://williamfelice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/N5QUMFMKYNB2ZKASRASKLIPIXY.jpg)
Poverty is not a natural innate condition, but the result of our individual, national and global actions and inactions. Acting to correct this manufactured human suffering is one of the premier human rights issues of our lifetime.