From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org): Poor oral health is linked to diabetes, adverse pregnancy outcomes, heart disease, childhood illnesses, even lost school and work hours. Millions of Americans suffer the physical and financial consequences of untreated dental problems, and our health … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): When the administration decided to shrink the borders of Bears Ears National Monument, a lot of people suspected they were planning to sell the newly unprotected land off for mining. When news came out that a mining … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): This crucial rule keeps America’s forests healthy and protected from logging and development, and dismantling it could re-start industrial scale, clear-cut old-growth logging in Southeast Alaska, putting stands of 500-year-old trees on the chopping … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): CBS News, August 10, 2018 Between July 2017 and July 2018, consumer prices increased 2.9 percent, and despite economic growth, the rate of inflation suggests Americans are earning less than a year … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): The Fiscal Times, September 4, 2018 The Brookings Institute reports that middle-class income groups accounted for 23 percent of means-tested social welfare spending in 1979, but that number increased to about 46 … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): Marketwatch, September 3, 2018 An Urban Institute report on a survey of 7,600 adults last December found that 39.4 percent of adults said their families had trouble meeting at least one basic … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In a new report, EPI’s Lawrence Mishel and Sylvia Allegretto, of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at U.C. Berkeley, find that teachers’ wages and compensation continue to fall relative to comparable workers. When adjusted … Continued
U.S. House Floor Vote Likely Week of Sept. 24 National Day of Action Thurs., Sept. 20 Speaker Paul Ryan has announced that he plans a vote in the House of Representatives on a second round of tax cuts before the … Continued
From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org): The agencies tasked with protecting species under the law—the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)—are proposing to make listing decisions based on economics and remove considering climate … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Labor Day is behind us. Halloween decorations are already starting to appear. And the reality is hitting us like a ton of bricks that the general election is coming fast, with deadlines for registering voters just … Continued