From Just Harvest (http://www.justharvest.org/): You can help keep struggling families from being taxed into poverty. Volunteer at one of our tax sites! For 15 years, our tax sites have helped thousands of low-income households in Allegheny County to maximize their … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): There’s nothing scarier than a Department of Labor that sides with Big Business and the Chamber of Commerce over working people. And yet, in the first year of the Donald Trump’s presidency, that’s exactly … Continued
From the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (http://www.thecaap.org): CAAP is pleased to announce that we have created three new videos titled Journey to Self-Sufficiency. We will release one video per week for the next three weeks. In August, CAAP interviewed six … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): AMERICA WILL BE is a film project documenting how organizers across the country are building the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival to help us become the nation we’ve not yet been. The project emerged … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): “The God I believe in and the God in the Bible is one of action, one who defends life and stands against injustice.” —Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis Read this conversation between Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-10-30/budget-policy-and-priorities/energy-help-for-low-income-pennsylvanians-still-precarious/a60068-1 October 30, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The Weatherization Assistance Program saves households an average of $283 per year. (StockSnap/Pixabay) HARRISBURG, Pa. — With cold weather on the way, … Continued
From the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (http://www.thecaap.org): The Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (CAAP) is excited to announce the release of our new poverty report that we put together in collaboration with the Coalition on Human Needs. The report, … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/12/imf-says-higher-taxes-wealthy-good-idea-and-these-billionaires-agree Published on Thursday, October 12, 2017 by Common Dreams A more progressive tax code, says International Monetary Fund, would both significantly reduce inequality and help grow the economy By Jake Johnson, staff writer “Three decades of data … Continued
By Tracy Jan October 3 The share of white millionaires in the United States has doubled in the past quarter-century, with 1 in 7 white families now worth more than $1 million, according to new Federal Reserve data. Fifteen percent of white families … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In a new brief (http://www.epi.org/publication/forced-arbitration-is-bad-for-consumers/), EPI’s Heidi Shierholz describes how the use of forced arbitration benefits companies at the expense of consumers—and the extent to which Wells Fargo cashed in on those benefits at … Continued