Posted at https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/reports/2018/07/12/453378/trumps-family-incarceration-policy-threatens-healthy-child-development/ By Leila Schochet Posted on July 12, 2018, 9:01 am Getty/Spencer PlattA Honduran mother and child wait along the border bridge in Brownsville, Texas, after being denied entry from Mexico into the United States on June 25, 2018. President Donald … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/07/11/fight-hunger-economy-improves-not-children/#.W0Yhi9VKgdU By David Elliot July 11, 2018 There is good news and bad news to report when it comes to food insecurity among households with children, according to a new analysis released by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings … Continued
On June 28th, 2018, Governor Wolf’s staff called a meeting with members of the Shut Down Berks Coalition to discuss the operation of the Berks County Detention Center (BCRC). The Governor’s office continues to claim the Governor has no role or … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): “After 40 hours of labor and 6 hours pushing, [my daughter] was in fetal distress and I had to have an emergency c-section. If we hadn’t had access to a good doctor, and appropriate care, we … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-06-27/childrens-issues/pa-kids-make-gains-but-census-undercount-could-hinder-progress/a63078-1 June 27, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Nearly one of every six Pennsylvania children is at risk of being overlooked as people are counted for the 2020 Census. (Bess-Hamiti/Pixabay) … Continued
From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): This past week has been tough. We’ve seen the cruelty of the administration towards families seeking asylum in the US. Children are taken from their parents at the border and put into government-run shelters, often … Continued
A RESOLUTION Affirming that the imprisonment and prolonged detention of asylum-seeking children and families is inhumane and counter to international law, and calling on Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to issue an emergency removal order and … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): June 21, 2018 Yesterday the President announced he is ending the policy of separating families at the border and instead wants to detain families together indefinitely. This is a cruel response to the … Continued
Church World Service urges the administration to terminate immoral policies that harm families Washington, D.C.— Church World Service today condemned the administration’s executive order to mandate that immigrant families be held in family detention. Instead of terminating the administration’s cruel … Continued
In response to the brutal separation of immigrant families now taking place under the current administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy, we have been receiving a number of inquiries from spiritual leaders asking: “What can we do?” As we develop our plans this … Continued