Posted at https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/survey-nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-oppose-cuts-to-snap-program.html July 25, 2018 MAJORITIES ALSO SUPPORT INVESTING RESOURCES IN NEW FARMERS A majority of registered voters oppose recent efforts to scale back Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits and believe the government should be doing more to … Continued
From National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/(: At a time when highly profitable corporations should be making it a priority to improve worker pay, a new report from NELP and the Roosevelt Institute finds that U.S. corporations spent most of their … Continued
From Juntos (http://vamosjuntos.org/): The city of Philadelphia has taken a historic step towards limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arsenal for hunting down immigrants and tearing apart families. Mayor Jim Kenney has announced the end to ICE’s access to the … Continued
From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): On July 25 the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in their efforts to keep a climate warming, fossil fuel pipeline off of their own land … Continued
From the Evangelical Environmental Network (http://www.creationcare.org): For over 20 years we have defended the Endangered Species Act. The last major threat was back in 1996 during the Gingrich Revolution. EEN’s efforts — including a press conference with a cougar, which … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): The top 1 percent of families in the United States took home, on average, 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent in 2015, according to a new EPI report by Estelle … Continued
One of the biggest challenges you and I face as climate hawks is the fossil fuel industry’s ability to flood the political system with money. That’s why we’ve been at the forefront of asking candidates to take the No Fossil … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): Medicare and Medicaid have just turned 53 years old. These critical programs serve 110 million Americans each year―older Americans and low-income families, many of whom could not afford health care services without these programs. … Continued
From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org): Trade officials are racing to complete their renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) within the coming weeks — and, not suprisingly, corporate lobby groups are pushing hard to ensure that NAFTA … Continued
The sustained advocacy call summary leads with action items, and always includes discussion hooks, positive news, and a meditation. We hope the discussion for policy conversations with legislators, Letters to the Editor, or conversations with neighbors, friends, and family. Each … Continued