From the National Alliance to End Homelessness (http://www.endhomelessness.org): As the year draws to a close, Congress is still working on the Fiscal Year 2023 spending bill that includes homelessness and housing funding. Two months have passed since the original deadline … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Want to join a national power network of Super Mom leaders? And are you – or do you aspire to be – a volunteer community leader who can make change happen for your family and loved … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): The University of Virginia. Club Q in Colorado Springs. The Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. That’s three horrific and heart-breaking mass shootings, one after the other in the space of days. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, we were … Continued
From the American Immigration Council (https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/): For months, governors have been spending millions of dollars to send migrants from border communities to New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard. While these political stunts have backfired as communities have welcomed … Continued
By KAREN SHUEY | kshuey@readingeagle.com | Reading Eagle PUBLISHED: November 30, 2022 at 2:18 p.m. | UPDATED: November 30, 2022 at 3:09 p.m. The Berks County Residential Center, a Bern Township facility where asylum seekers have been held and that has been the subject of protests for … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Clean Air Council and its supporters have worked for years to urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce air pollution from new and existing oil and gas facilities. The gas industry emits … Continued
By Reid Wilson The number of state legislative districts where racial or ethnic minorities make up a majority or a near majority of the population dropped substantially after the latest round of redistricting, even as those minority groups accounted for … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Why are we cutting down one of the planet’s most important forest ecosystems to make toilet paper? Housing some of North America’s most iconic animals, Canada’s boreal forest is also a crucial carbon sink that absorbs planet-warming … Continued
From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/): The time is now to finish the job that the Inflation Reduction Act started by expanding Medicare drug price negotiation, and extending the insulin $35 copay cap to every American, not just those with Medicare. … Continued
The vast majority of US public lands are carved out of Indigenous people’s sacred homelands. In some cases, Tribal communities retain treaty rights to those lands, many of which contain sacred cultural sites. Yet the federal government grants itself permission … Continued