Anti-Poverty Advocates Brace For How Trump Will Fill In Policy Blanks

Poverty was one of the forgotten issues on the campaign trail this election season. Now, many who work with the nation’s poor worry that it will be even more forgotten under a Trump administration and the new Republican Congress. Mariana Chilton, who runs the Center for Hunger Free Communities at Drexel University, doesn’t remember Donald Trump saying much about poor people during the presidential campaign, but she does remember a comment he made about a protester who was being removed from one of his rallies.