From Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania (http://www.housingalliancepa.org/): We know how to end homelessness in Pennsylvania. By making homelessness a priority, the Governor will provide the leadership and will that is needed to move towards the day when homelessness in Pennsylvania is … Continued
NOTE: In Pennsylvania, an average of 12.4% experienced low food security from 2013-2015, and 4.8% experience very low food security. See the table with numbers for all states at http://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/foodinsec_2015_table_fmt.pdf. From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): Despite progress, more … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): WASHINGTON, September 13, 2016 – The U.S. household median income rose and the poverty rate fell — both improved significantly — from 2014 to 2015, according to today’s Census Bureau annual release of income, poverty and … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/09/13/13886/#.V9lav_krIdU By David Elliot SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 Today the U.S. Census Bureau released important new data on poverty, median household income, and the number of Americans covered by health insurance. Below is a statement by CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein responding … Continued
By: Patrick Cicero Published: September 8, 2016 NATIONWIDE, low-income households spend an average of three times as much of their income on energy as higher income households, in large part because of energy-inefficient housing. Low-income households here in Pennsylvania are … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): The recent Census Bureau annual report on poverty, income, and health coverage shows major economic improvement on a number of indicators, including a drop in poverty from 14.8 percent of Americans in 2014 to 13.5 percent in … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): 3.5 million fewer people were poor in 2015 than in 2014 (1 million fewer poor children among them). That’s a reduction from 14.8 percent poor in 2014 to 13.5 percent in 2015. Good … Continued
Posted at http://www.chn.org/2016/09/14/impossible-choices/#.V9m3-vkrIdU By David Elliot September 14, 2016 Of course we know that hunger exists in America – and that an estimated 15.3 million children in our country, or one in five, live in a household where there is a real … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): August 26, 2016 | Stephanie Land Posted at https://talkpoverty.org/2016/08/26/people-poverty-work-paul-ryan-misunderstands-poverty/ In this March 1, 2016, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): August 23, 2016 | Samuel Hammond Posted at https://talkpoverty.org/2016/08/22/everything-wanted-know-1996-welfare-law-afraid-ask/ (AP Photo) In the years after former President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act and “ended welfare as we know it,” … Continued