Category Archives: federal budget

Tell Congress: Don’t Cut SNAP in the Farm Bill

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From NETWORK (http://www.networklobby.org): Last week both the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees marked up their version of the Farm Bill and voted for them. Each made devastating cuts to programs for children’s nutrition, specifically to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance … Continue reading →

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Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From Share Our Strength (http://strength.org/): It’s time to make your voice heard. This week, Congress is working on the Farm Bill, legislation that includes funding for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly food stamps). Half of all SNAP participants are … Continue reading →

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Protect Survivors of Domestic Violence

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From Sojourners (http://www.sojo.net): By cutting funding for programs that prevent domestic violence and sexual assault by tens of millions of dollars this year, the arbitrary budget cuts known as “sequestration” are making it harder for vulnerable women to get the … Continue reading →

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Act Now: Food and Farm Policy Moving on Capitol Hill

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the Washington Office, PC(USA) (http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/washington/about-us/): This week, both the Senate and the House of Representatives will be making crucial steps to advance food and farm policy. Your voice is needed now: tell your members of Congress to enact a … Continue reading →

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Request the Highest Possible Level for HUD

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania (http://www.housingalliancepa.org/): The T(ransportation)HUD allocation uniquely promotes the well-being of our home communities by providing essential seed capital and program funding that enables public and private partners to build critical transportation infrastructure, spur economic development in … Continue reading →

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Prominent Faith Leaders Urge Congress & President Obama to Stand by Commitment to Fellow Americans

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

Faithful Budget for FY 2014 demonstrates how federal budget choices can and must reflect America’s shared values (Washington, DC) – A prominent coalition of America’s major national religious organization and leaders today unveiled the “Faithful Budget for FY 2014” an … Continue reading →

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Urge Your Representative to Support a Financial Transaction Tax

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From NETWORK (http://www.networklobby.org): Please tell your representative to support the Inclusive Prosperity Act (H.R. 1579; http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1579). This is a Financial Transaction Tax, a tax on Wall Street which gained the most in the financial downfall, and received the most from … Continue reading →

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Email Congress: Fix Life-Changing Cuts, Not Just Inconveniences

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Okay – no one likes to wait at an airport.  But is that the biggest problem facing our nation? We have been compiling stories about real harm.  Poor people with disabilities, one step away from … Continue reading →

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Help #TalkPoverty—Download the Toolkit to Take Action Against the Sequester!

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From Half in Ten (http://halfinten.org/): Beginning March 1 the automatic across-the-board cuts to the budget known as the “sequester” went into effect. More than one month later, devastating cuts to crucial programs and services such as Head Start, nutrition assistance … Continue reading →

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Please Educate Congress on the Importance of the EITC and Child Tax Credit

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From the National Council of Churches’ Poverty Initiative (http://www.nccendpoverty.org/index.html): On April 15th, Tax Day, many of us filed our taxes, and now some of us are expecting refunds. For millions of children of working families in the United States, these … Continue reading →

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