PPC

In the model, short-term history effects occur due to inputs from the PPC that has a slower integration timescale as well as firing rate adaptation.

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,” according to the PPC.

PPC activist Karen Szczepanski, 67, lives in Montclair and has been a lifelong labor activist working with the CWA, HPAE, the state's largest nurses' union and then with 1199SEIU.

The PPC, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, is carrying forward into the 21st century the work of the Poor People's Campaign that was led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

On Tuesday, before she set out with Hayes and Swieringa to walk the halls of Congress, she told InsiderNJ that the PPC policy briefings that linked premature death and poverty had fortified her for the challenges ahead.