From Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (http://www.papartnerships.org): As legislative leaders in Washington, D.C. continue to debate the merits of another round of stimulus funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HEROES Act passed by the U.S. House several weeks ago includes … Continued
From Public Citizens for Children and Youth (http://www.pccy.org): The 2020 edition of the KIDS COUNT® Data Book, released this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, shows Pennsylvania ranks 20th for overall child well-being. The report uses 16 indicators across … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): The COVID-19 pandemic has created a daunting series of challenges for our country: not only are people facing a national public health emergency, but they are struggling to feed their families, as the … Continued
From Pennsylvania Common Cause: (https://www.commoncause.org/pennsylvania/): In less than 5 months, Pennsylvanians will begin casting their ballots in the November election — but COVID-19 and the ongoing protests against police brutality and structural racism raise tons of unanswered questions about what that’ll … Continued
Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine signed amended green phase orders for the 12 counties moving to green at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow, June 26. The counties include Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Erie, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia and … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): On June 11th, the administration released its newest, unlawful, and immoral proposed rule that would create insurmountable barriers for all asylum seekers and destroy the U.S. asylum system – already being systematically eviscerated in coordinated attacks. The proposed rule would … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs so far during the COVID-19 pandemic and nearly half of adults live in a household that has lost income since mid-March. The result: dramatically increasing economic insecurity. … Continued
From the National Low Income Housing Coalition (http://www.nlihc.org): The House of Representatives will vote next week – as soon as Monday, June 29 – on a package of critically needed emergency housing resources and protections to help keep renters in … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): After the second warmest January to March since national temperature began being recorded in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is projecting a 75% chance that 2020 will be recorded as the … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): This week Speaker Cutler took the gavel in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives after five years of iron fist rule by former Speaker Mike Turzai. During that time, we were not able to even get a vote … Continued