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In 2020, 58 million people in this group cast ballots, making up 34-46% of voters in 9 battleground states and more than 20% in all but 5 states. [...] If just 20% of poor and low-income voters who didn’t vote in 2020 went to the polls in 2024, they would have the power to sway elections in every state. [...] Obstacles to Full Democratic Participation The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013 and the Senate blocked a bill to restore these rights by a two-vote margin in 2022. [...] Select Data on Interconnected Injustices Harming Poor and Low-Income People Poverty Child Tax Credit expansion and other pandemic programs cut the number of poor and low-income people from 140 million in 2019 to 112 million in 2021. [...] Poor and low-income people are bearing the brunt of deaths and injuries due to extreme heat, storms, and drought.