From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Join us on Thursday, May 9th to tell your Members of Congress to protect refugees and restore the refugee resettlement program! Hundreds of refugees and advocates will be in Washington, DC that day to share why they care … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): HARRISBURG – Senator Robert Casey today joined Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, and Ron Wyden to introduce the Working Families Tax Relief Act, legislation that would begin to fix our … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): Great news! The push to restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students has reached Congress. Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Reps. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), and French Hill … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/03/flood-comments-shows-public-utterly-repulsed-trump-plan-take-food-stamps-750000 Published on Wednesday, April 03, 2019 by Common Dreams “This is a direct attack on the most vulnerable among us and this policy violence cannot go unchallenged,” said Rev. William Barber By Jake Johnson, staff writer U.S. … Continued
From Keystone Counts (https://www.keystonecounts.org/): Recently, a federal judge in Maryland ruled that the proposed citizenship question for the 2020 was both unconstitutional and illegal under federal law. This marks the third time a federal district judge has struck down the … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): A U.S. District Court judge struck down the Administration-encouraged work requirements on Medicaid enrollees in Arkansas and Kentucky (for the second time). The Arkansas decision led off with the story of Adrian McGonigal, who was working but … Continued
From the #ShutDownBerks Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownBerksCoalition/): Berks County wants human services, not human rights abuses. In 2017 the Council On Chemical Abuse found that over 30,000 is the estimated amount of Berks County residents in recovery from addiction to drugs and … Continued
From the #ShutDownBerks Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownBerksCoalition/): Governor Wolf’s administration, specifically the Department of Human Services, has the power to end family detention in Pennsylvania. In 2016, the Sheller Center for Social Justice of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, outlined … Continued
From the #ShutDownBerks Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/ShutDownBerksCoalition/): In this week’s video learn the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the campaign. How can the prison be closed? What would happen to the facility if it were closed as a detention … Continued