By Kathleen E. Carey, Delaware County Daily Times POSTED: 05/26/17, 9:05 PM EDT | UPDATED: 1 WEEK, 3 DAYS AGO CHESTER >> Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary John Wetzel stood before the State Correctional Institute at Chester Friday to stress the importance of investing in quality … Continued
From Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (http://www.papartnerships.org): We recently joined our partner Fight Crime: Invest in Kids to advocate for the expansion of evidence-based home visiting and promote its new report, Preventing Crime Through Voluntary Home Visiting. District Attorneys and policymakers – including … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/06/02/its-called-having-a-country/#.WTa5I-vysdU By Lecia Imbery June 2, 2017 Last week, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testified before the Senate Budget Committee about President Trump’s FY18 budget proposal. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) asked Director Mulvaney why the budget … Continued
From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org): The U.S. Trade Representative is currently accepting public comments on how it should renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Please demand that any NAFTA replacement deal prioritize the needs of working families … Continued
From the Committee of Seventy (https://www.seventy.org/): That’s the motto of OpenPrimaries, a New York-based nonprofit that advocates against closed systems such as PA’s, in which only registered Ds and Rs can vote in their own primaries, and registered independents and … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): The budget request released last week by President Trump for fiscal year 2018 proposes to make cruel and devastating cuts to programs that support children, families, and individuals of modest means, slash investments in America’s future, and … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Today is a national day of action to protect Medicaid. Please call your members of Congress today to deliver the following message—no cuts to Medicaid Expansion, and no caps or block granting of … Continued
Eric Fritz, PA’s Choice coordinator in southeast Pennsylvania, has arranged SEVEN district office meetings in June. Eric is inviting PA’s Choice partners (the Council is a partner) to help recruit participants – especially constituents – for these meetings. Please notify … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): Today we released the findings of the first-ever independent survey of federal prisoners in a report, “Using Time to Reduce Crime: Federal Prisoner Survey Results Show Ways to Reduce Recidivism.” Last summer, we sent … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): You’ve probably seen the headlines – “Pennsylvania drinking water ranks third worst in the nation,” “Pennsylvania should act now on drinking water problems says EPA,” and “Pittsburgh tries to avoid becoming the next Flint.” Water is our … Continued