“Poor people are the hardest working people in America.” This is what Representative Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) told the crowd at a poverty simulation for members of Congress and their senior staff on July 15, at the Capitol Visitor Center.  Lutheran Services in America (LSA) joined Catholic Charities USA, Entergy, and other collaborators in the Future Without Poverty coalition to put on this event that received bipartisan support and was attended by nearly one dozen members of the House. I had the amazing opportunity to attend as a volunteer representing LSA. I had never experienced a poverty simulation, as a participant or as a volunteer. And while I did listen in on a conference call training session for volunteers and knew that I would play the role of a caseworker at the Department of Social Services, I really had no idea what to expect. After multiple House members addressed the crowd […]