Posted at https://endhomelessness.org/court-says-cities-cant-criminalize-sleeping-outside-absent-housing-shelter-options/ September 13, 2018 Written by Eric Tars, Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. Last Tuesday, September 4, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that people experiencing homelessness cannot be punished for sleeping outside in the … Continued
From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/): Our children are targets. The Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with poor people, advocates, as well as denominational and national faith leaders are fighting back to … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): New polling data from the Center for American Progress reveals that a majority of voters have struggled with child care and believe that government has a role to play in solving America’s child … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): Child, Young Adult Poverty Rates Stagnate New Census data paint a bleak picture for low-income families struggling to make ends meet. After several years of sharply declining poverty rates, progress came to a screeching halt in 2017. … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/09/12/progress-fighting-poverty-slows-first-time-years-number-uninsured-americans-not-significantly-decline/#.W5lp3M5KgdU By CHN September 12, 2018 Editor’s note: CHN on Wednesday, Sept. 12 issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest census and poverty data. For more information, please visit our 2017 Census and Poverty … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): CBS News, August 10, 2018 Between July 2017 and July 2018, consumer prices increased 2.9 percent, and despite economic growth, the rate of inflation suggests Americans are earning less than a year … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): The Fiscal Times, September 4, 2018 The Brookings Institute reports that middle-class income groups accounted for 23 percent of means-tested social welfare spending in 1979, but that number increased to about 46 … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): Marketwatch, September 3, 2018 An Urban Institute report on a survey of 7,600 adults last December found that 39.4 percent of adults said their families had trouble meeting at least one basic … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): WASHINGTON, September 5, 2018 — More than 40 million Americans lived in households struggling with food insecurity — limited or uncertain access to enough food — in 2017, according to a report … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): In its latest attempt to decrease legal immigration, the Trump administration is developing another cruel policy to target immigrant families who need help. According to a POLITICO report, an increasing number of immigrants—both … Continued