Can America's "sleeping giant" shake up the election? Let's hope so

The fate of our republic rests entirely in the hands of the nation’s 85 million low wage potential voters, roughly a third of the American electorate that society and the corporate news media regularly ignore.

A Columbia University study found a majority of low-wage voters did not turn out because they didn’t hear candidates discuss issues that had any relevancy to their lives.

Low-wealth voters are left out of our deliberations and sit on the sidelines.

The Poor People’s Campaign is planning simultaneous actions on March 2 at over 30 state capitols to launch “the campaign and highlight the policies being promulgated in state houses across the country that are hurting the poor or distracting from addressing the real issues facing poor and low-wealth people.

The targeted states include Alabama , Arizona , California , the District of Columbia , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Massachusetts , Maine , Michigan , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , Tennessee , Texas , Vermont , Washington , Wisconsin , and West Virginia .