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
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): We hear a lot about the top 1 percent and how more and more income and wealth are going to the very richest Americans while working families get left behind. But did you know … Continued
Thursday, August 16, 2018 Steven Martinez, the CAAP Communications Director has offered a perspective on the article CLIP (Coalition for Low Income Pennsylvanians) posted August 2, which came from the American Enterprise Institute. Here is the original post And, thanks … Continued
From Community Legal Services (https://clsphila.org/): Great news! On July 18, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted 7-0 to repeal Act 80 of 2012, which eliminated General Assistance that year. This cash assistance program provides a minimal income support for desperately … Continued
Posted at https://www.nelp.org/blog/happy-83rd-birthday-social-security by Michele Evermore On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law one of the most effective federal programs in our nation’s history. For the better part of a century, Social Security has successfully prevented … Continued
Posted at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/13/1787881/-Not-since-right-before-the-Great-Depression-has-the-1-controlled-this-much-wealth Leslie Salzillo Monday August 13, 2018 · 10:50 AM EDT Via MarketWatch, a news group considered to be one of the most prominent in today’s financial industry, Karl Paul reports that in the last 20-30 years, the disparity between the rich and more as … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): Every person is made in the image of God and is thus worthy of respect and dignity. That means every person should be counted and represented by their government. That is why we are … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): The current administration’s economic agenda has been relentlessly aimed at helping big corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us—and it’s succeeding wildly. New numbers show that for Americans, … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): August 7 marked Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, a day that symbolizes how long into 2018 an African American woman would have to work in order to be paid the same wages her white … Continued
Posted at https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/missouri-voters-repeal-anti-union-right-work-law/ Posted August 7, 2018 In response to the Proposition A veto referendum in which Missouri voters resoundingly repealed Senate Bill 19, the state’s right-to-work law, Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, issued the … Continued