From the Voter Participation Center (https://www.voterparticipation.org/): The Voter Participation Center’s Voter Hub is now live and ready to assist voters across the country! The Voter Hub is home to state-by-state information about upcoming election dates and registration deadlines, as well … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is weighing a plan that would allow states to use your federal tax dollars to put guns in schools. This is outrageous! As parents, teachers, school personnel and students all know, guns … Continued
From the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (http://www.usglc.org/): August 22, 2018 RISKY RESCISSIONS. According to the Washington Post, OMB is planning to push out a “rescissions package” next week to freeze and ultimately expire several billion dollars of foreign assistance funding … Continued
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness (http://www.endhomelessness.org): The new interactive State of Homelessness in America report explores trends in homelessness across the country — down to the Continuum of Care (CoC) level. The interactive report includes data on homeless … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): The beginning of the school year coincides with good news for Pennsylvania’s public school students. On Tuesday, August 21, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court removed a major barrier that has kept the school funding lawsuit from … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): “The air is literally unsafe to breathe. [1] I’ve had a pounding headache for two weeks straight. My four year old has had a sore throat, constant cough, and is wondering why he hasn’t been able … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-08-22/environment/epa-roll-back-of-clean-power-plan-called-unlawful/a63769-1 August 22, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan would allow states to determine how much carbon pollution their coal-fired power plants can emit, and … Continued
We are looking to gather stories from communities throughout Pennsylvania that have faced harmful threats to their health and safety, but were told they couldn’t stop the harm because of state or federal laws; or were threatened with a lawsuit by a … Continued
Posted at https://spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-exclusives/unite-financial-and-social-services-to-give-women-a-way-out-of-poverty/ Adeline Azrack, Fondation CHANEL and Elena Chavez Quezada, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, posted on August 15, 2018 Mothers are now the sole or primary breadwinners in two out of every five U.S. families, and one out of four … Continued
Posted at http://www.seiu.org/blog/2018/8/hey-congress-the-farm-bill-is-a-bad-investment It’s time to invest in people; not corporations By: Precious Bonney History has shown us that it’s never a lost cause to invest in people. So why does Congress continue to invest in wealthy corporations at the … Continued