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
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): On November 30, Oxfam America in partnership with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) launched its Undervalued and Underpaid in America: Women in Low-Wage, Female-Dominated Jobs report. While much of the discussion after the election has focused … Continued
Updated: OCTOBER 17, 2016 — 1:30 PM EDT by Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer @samanthamelamed Last summer, Kameelah Davis-Spears was just one year out of homelessness. She’d found a house for herself and her four children in West Philadelphia using a Section 8 voucher. … Continued
Posted at http://thirdandstate.org/2016/november/inaction-state-senate-fund-unemployment-compensation-call-centers Nov 18, 2016 04:42 pm | John Neurohr Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier made the following statement after the state Senate failed to vote for additional funding for the Department of Labor and Industry’s … Continued
From Interfaith Worker Justice (http://www.iwj.org): Today, working people across the country are taking action in their communities to fight a wage theft epidemic that robs workers of $50 billion annually. To put that in perspective, $50 billion is more than … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/11/18/the-high-cost-of-being-poor-in-your-state-part-ii/#.WC9yfLIrIdU By Ana-Elisa Gentle November 18, 2016 Last month, we highlighted some of the fabulous work our state partners did surrounding the reports on poverty they co-released in conjunction with CHN’s national report, The High Cost of Being Poor in the U.S. The … Continued
Posted at http://www.clasp.org/issues/work-life-and-job-quality/in-focus/voters-increase-minimum-wage-guarantee-paid-sick-time-for-millions-of-workers NOV 15, 2016 By Zoe Ziliak Michel While the public has been focused on the presidential race, last week’s election also included ballot initiatives affecting millions of working people. Across the country, in both red and blue states, … Continued
Posted at http://www.businessforafairminimumwage.org/news/001041/reading-eagle-charlie-crystle-fair-minimum-wage-why-it-pays-be-good Shared with permission of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage and Charlie Crystle (see bio at end). Copyright Charlie Crystle 2016. Op-Ed By Charlie Crystle Wilkes Barre Citizen Voice, Oct 31, 2016. Also Reading Eagle, The Intelligencer, Bucks County … Continued
From Americans United for Separation of Church and State (http://www.au.org): The presidential election is on everyone’s mind, but we can’t forget about Congress. After the ballots are counted, Congress will return to Washington on November 14 to debate critical legislation, … Continued
From the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (http://www.thecaap.org): In the past few weeks, since CAAP announced that Senator Yudichak had filed S.B.1379 which would weaken Pennsylvania’s strong predatory lender laws, many of our newsletter readers have asked for more details … Continued