From Start Strong PA (https://startstrongpa.org/): Raising child care wages not only recognizes child care professionals deserve pay that reflects their important work, it will increase child care programs’ ability to recruit and retain qualified staff. This will reduce the staff turnover … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): World Refugee Day is quickly approaching on June 20th (also Juneteeth observed). It is important that we honor those forced from their homes to seek safety due to violence and persecution. This day recognizes their … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): The infant formula shortage has been going on for months now and we just learned that most states are experiencing a 74% out-of-stock rate, with 10 states seeing even higher rates near 90%. [1] We know … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/14/medicare-all-could-have-prevented-more-338000-us-covid-deaths-study “Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.,” said the lead author of a new study. “Americans are needlessly losing lives and money.” KENNY STANCIL June 14, 2022 Covid-19 has killed more than one million people in the United States … Continued
From the Vera Institute of Justice (https://www.vera.org/): Too often, people who are immigrants are detained and deported simply because they can’t afford an attorney. Of the more than 1.25 million people with pending cases in the immigration court system – … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): We have a historic opportunity to increase funding for Pennsylvania’s parks, forests and special outdoor places. There’s one thing all Pennsylvanians can agree on: we’re blessed with an incredible network of parks, forests and public lands. From … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Politicians are playing games with our lives. We’ve felt the impact of their obstruction for years, but over the last few days, their antics came to a point of horrific consequences for all Pennsylvanians. Send a message … Continued
From POWER Interfaith (http://www.powerinterfaith.org/): As many of you know, since 2014 POWER Interfaith has been demanding an end to the structural racism in PA K-12 state funding. During June 2022, the POWER Education Justice Campaign is fully supporting Gov. Wolf’s … Continued
From the National Low Income Housing Coalition (http://www.nlihc.org): During an NLIHC-led HoUSed campaign call on June 6, Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, reported that centrist Senator Joe Manchin opposes including housing investments in a … Continued
From Keystone Research Center (https://krc-pbpc.org/): New Keystone Research brief profiles workers who would benefit Harrisburg, PA – Yesterday at a press conference with Sen. Art Haywood, the Keystone Research Center (KRC) released a new brief outlining who would benefit from … Continued