Dozens of anti-poverty protesters rallied at the state capitol on Monday to bring attention to what they call policy violence against the poor.

The so-called Moral Monday event in Frankfort was one of several nationwide held in response to federal cuts to Medicaid, food stamps or Snap, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

We are the richest country in human history, and we are watching more and more people fall in the poverty.

More and more people become victims of policy violence.

We have to admit that we are in a state of moral rocks and decay, and that is absolutely intolerable.

In a country where billionaires are accumulating more and more billions of dollars and people come in every day working people, when they get their paycheck, when sit at the table and decide if they have to pay their health bill, far below light, bill, groceries or buy the insulin, they can't do it all.

That means something out.

That's unacceptable.

So many people are food insecure.

This hunger makes a lot of empty refrigerators.

Dwindling groceries.

In a nation of abundance.

The people respond.

We refuse to accept policy violence as normal or inevitable.

Before the cuts snap, help me find fresh food, clean, balanced meal and work.

Last week month.

It wasn't a lot, but it made a real difference.

I could focus on my recovery and I was able to focus on living, not just surviving.

When the benefits were reduced.

Everything came bright to stay high, but the amount I received went down.

I found myself putting stuff back on the shelves at the store, shooting cheaper, less healthy foods and dressing, and what I bought would last till next month.

These cuts didn't go straight by budget.

They increased my daily anxiety and they basically nutrition harder to afford.

Snap used to give me a bit of ability.

Now I struggle every day to make ends meet one meal at a time.

More than 24 million rely on ACA coverage.

93% need premium credit to afford it.

The shutdown may be over, but many people are still shut out of the Food Network.

So the policy violence continues.

That is 20 million kitchen tables with unopened bills and impossible choices between survival and dignity for millions losing coverage and 20 million facing double premiums.

The people respond.

We refuse to accept promising violence as.

Normal or inevitable.

After the rally, the group took letters to state lawmakers asking them to support programs that help the nearly 36% of Kentuckians who are considered poor or working poor.