Progress in Fighting Poverty Slows—and for the First Time in Years, the Number of Uninsured Americans Does Not Significantly Decline
19 Sep 2018

Progress in Fighting Poverty Slows—and for the First Time in Years, the Number of Uninsured Americans Does Not Significantly Decline

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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

EPA Proposes Rolling Back Methane Rule
19 Sep 2018

EPA Proposes Rolling Back Methane Rule

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Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-09-12/environment/epa-proposes-rolling-back-methane-rule/a63948-1 September 12, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The oil and gas industry is the largest industrial source of methane pollution in the United States. (olafpictures/pixabay) PHILADELPHIA – Clean-air advocates … Continued

Urge Congress to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Health
19 Sep 2018

Urge Congress to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Health

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From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/):  “Exhausted from labor, I had no idea what to even say or ask. I never ended up receiving an overview of the process, nor any information on what I should expect or do post-partum. I was … Continued

Download Voter E-Guide to Help Protect From Online Manipulation and False News…
19 Sep 2018

Download Voter E-Guide to Help Protect From Online Manipulation and False News…

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To help fight online political misinformation and false news, which has already resurfaced in the 2018 midterm elections, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) has produced a short e-guide to help voters understand how online media platforms can be hijacked to fan … Continued

Protect Old Growth Forest in Tongass
18 Sep 2018

Protect Old Growth Forest in Tongass

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From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): This crucial rule keeps America’s forests healthy and protected from logging and development, and dismantling it could re-start industrial scale, clear-cut old-growth logging in Southeast Alaska, putting stands of 500-year-old trees on the chopping … Continued

Who’s Using the Social Safety Net? More and More, It’s the Middle Class
18 Sep 2018

Who’s Using the Social Safety Net? More and More, It’s the Middle Class

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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