From the PICO National Network (http://www.piconetwork.org): If your congregation is considering becoming a sanctuary congregation, you can learn more about the Sanctuary movement by checking out the documents/information below: The webinar recording The Sanctuary Movement toolkit The Department of Homeland … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/december/mid-year-budget-briefing-full-picture-even-more-grim Dec 15, 2016 04:46 pm | Marc Stier Budget Secretary Randy Albright’s mid-year budget briefing brings worrisome news that, at its current level of expenditure and revenues, the Pennsylvania budget for the 2016-17 will have a deficit … Continued
Download the KRC fact sheet on Pennsylvania Top 1% Incomes in 2014 Download the CBPP fact sheet on Pennsylvania Incomes in 2015 Download the CBPP report “How State Tax Policies Can Stop Increasing Inequality and Start Reducing It” HARRISBURG – … Continued
NewsWorks “A study published … broke down decades of data from a group of 30-somethings who attended two North Carolina early childhood programs in the 1970s. They found that every dollar spent on this cohort of kids created $6.30 in … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Congress is back in session, and one of their first priorities will be the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Votes on the ACA may begin as early as this week, so we … Continued
Environmentalists and people of faith (including the Pennsylvania Council of Churches) are concerned and dismayed at the nomination of OK Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He has a long history of opposition to … Continued
From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): In good news, President Obama recently announced that he would send his copy of the Senate Torture Report to his presidential library where it will be protected and should eventually be made … Continued
The LNP Editorial Board THE ISSUE Pennsylvania could lose a seat in Congress by the beginning of the next decade. National population shifts will take representative slots to faster-growing states such as Texas and Florida. After the census numbers are … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-12-15/early-childhood-education/most-eligible-pa-children-missing-benefits-of-publicly-funded-pre-k/a55413-1 December 15, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window In Pennsylvania, 74 percent of eligible children in suburban districts cannot access publicly funded pre-K. (Terren in Virginia/Flickr) HARRISBURG, Pa. – A … Continued
Posted at http://www.upworthy.com/7-real-things-you-can-do-right-now-about-the-catastrophe-in-aleppo December 13, 2016 By Eric March Syrian government troops are attempting to capture the remaining sections of Aleppo, and its citizens are in grave danger. Aleppo Residents flee rebel-held areas of the city. Photo by Karam Al-Masri/Getty Images. The … Continued