Please take 3 minutes to protect access to clean water by calling your Senators. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the link between public health and access to clean water. Due to underinvestment in American and tribal water and wastewater systems, … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): Negotiations over the next COVID-19 relief package are underway between congressional leaders and the White House. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has released a COVID-19 proposal that omits SNAP benefit boosts … Continued
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness (http://www.endhomelessness.org): The Senate unveiled its latest coronavirus relief bill, and there’s bad news: not only does it fail to extend the eviction moratoria, but funding for homelessness and housing is nonexistent. As negotiations … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): It appears that the Senate is failing to recognize the scope and impact of this pandemic, and not giving workers or our economy what we really need. We need Congress to pass a strong, bold, comprehensive … Continued
From the National Low Income Housing Coalition (http://www.nlihc.org): After months of harmful and unnecessary delays, Senate Republicans released today a coronavirus relief package that would leave millions of America’s lowest-income renters at risk of evictions and homelessness due to the pandemic. It … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/24/un-calls-temporary-basic-income-worlds-poorest-27-billion-people-lifeline-amid Published on Friday, July 24, 2020 by Common Dreams “The case for implementing this proposal is unimpeachable and world leaders should proceed immediately.” By Julia Conley, staff writer A stranded mother carries her child by a road … Continued
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): As many of you know the Senate came back to DC this week to address a few urgent issues before the August recess, including their version of the next COVID relief bill called CARES 2. The House … Continued
From Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA (https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/): Do you (or someone you know) have the drive to help build ELCA World Hunger capacity to end hunger by deepening and expanding Lutheran advocacy efforts in synods, coalitions and networks? Evangelical Lutheran … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): It’s a back to school season like none we have ever experienced before. Instead of reviewing school supply lists, we’re dealing with a lot of uncertainty and scrambling to figure out what to do if (!?!?) … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): States are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than two decades, EPI has been home to EARN—a national network of 55 organizations in 43 states and the District of Columbia working … Continued