The Huffington Post, May 17, 2017 U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently told the House agriculture committee during a hearing that SNAP has “been a very important, effective program,” and “[a]s far as I’m concerned we have no … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/05/23/trump-budget-harsh-attack-people/#.WSRt2esrIdV By Deborah Weinstein May 23, 2017 Editor’s note: Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of CHN, issued the following statement Tuesday in response to President Trump’s budget proposal. A PDF version of this statement can be found here. “Members of Congress should … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/05/16/fact-week-80-percent-critical-human-needs-programs-lost-ground-since-fy10/#.WRso4_krIdV By Lecia Imbery May 16, 2017 Minority health programs cut by 10 percent. Juvenile justice programs cut nearly in half. Housing for the elderly cut by 46 percent; housing for people with disabilities cut nearly 57 percent. Job training … Continued
By Christian Alexandersen | calexandersen@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on May 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, updated May 10, 2017 at 1:35 PM Children have been denied food, made to do chores and singled out if they are unable to pay … Continued
From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): The Kairos Center is excited to announce that the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II will be transitioning out of his role as the president of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP in June, … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/26/because-its-time-new-radical-ideas-ted-talk-universal-basic-income-gets-thunderous Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 by Common Dreams ‘Just imagine how much talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all,’ said historian Rutger Bregman during talk By Andrea Germanos, staff … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Posted at http://www.chn.org/2017/04/19/15594/#.WPfPFfkrIdU By Leo Nguyen April 19, 2017 Closing racial disparities in homeownerships. Ending domestic hunger in low-income communities. Tackling the gender pay gap. Proposing commonsense, high-quality, and realistic child care reform. CHN’s … Continued
By: Andrew Small, Atlantic City Lab Published: April 12, 2017 In the spring and summer of 2011, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania strapped heart monitors onto test subjects and set them loose on the side streets of Philadelphia. The subjects strolled … Continued
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): At this time more than 20 million people are facing starvation as famine looms in Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, and has already been declared in parts of South Sudan. The United Nations has warned that the world … Continued