Springsteen on Thursday thanked the /*Asbury Park Press*/ for a March 27 article about how anti-poverty groups in New Jersey are facing an uphill battle as /*Gov. Chris Christie*/ seeks to cut spending and property taxes.
Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty."
Springsteen says it will "likely to continue to get worse over the next few years."
The letter is signed: /*Bruce Springsteen*/, /*Colts Neck*/.
Here is the full text of the letter:
Thank you for your March 27 front-page story by Michael Symons, "As poverty rises, cuts target aid." The article is one of the few that highlights the contradictions between a policy of large tax cuts, on the one hand, and cuts in services to those in the most dire conditions, on the other.
Also, you've shone some light on anti-poverty workers and analysts such as Adele LaTourette, Meara Nigro, Cecilia Zalkind and Raymond Castro, among others, all of whom have something important to add to the discussion: real information and actual facts about what is happening below the poverty line.
These are voices that in our current climate are having a hard time being heard, not just in New Jersey, but nationally. Finally, your article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty, and are likely to continue to get worse over the next few years. I'm always glad to see my hometown newspaper covering these issues.
Bruce Springsteen
COLTS NECK
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