From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): WASHINGTON, August 1, 2018 — In every part of the nation, a large number of households is experiencing food hardship — the inability to afford enough food for themselves and their families … Continued
Posted at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/27/1784042/-Indiana-church-replaces-detained-Holy-Family-with-new-display-your-reflection Gabe Ortiz, Daily Kos Staff Friday July 27, 2018 · 4:50 PM EDT Christ Church Cathedral The same Indiana church that held the Holy Family “in detention” has replaced the statues with a mirror, so that anyone who walks by will see their … Continued
The Moral Cost of the Immigration Crisis By Richard Primus Sometime in 1940, an 11-year-old refugee named Yudita Nisse reached the United States on a boat from Japan. Her Latvian-Jewish family had fled Nazi Germany east across the Soviet Union; the trip to … Continued
Posted at https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/survey-nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-oppose-cuts-to-snap-program.html July 25, 2018 MAJORITIES ALSO SUPPORT INVESTING RESOURCES IN NEW FARMERS A majority of registered voters oppose recent efforts to scale back Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits and believe the government should be doing more to … Continued
From National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/(: At a time when highly profitable corporations should be making it a priority to improve worker pay, a new report from NELP and the Roosevelt Institute finds that U.S. corporations spent most of their … Continued
From Juntos (http://vamosjuntos.org/): The city of Philadelphia has taken a historic step towards limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arsenal for hunting down immigrants and tearing apart families. Mayor Jim Kenney has announced the end to ICE’s access to the … Continued
From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): On July 25 the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in their efforts to keep a climate warming, fossil fuel pipeline off of their own land … Continued
From the Evangelical Environmental Network (http://www.creationcare.org): For over 20 years we have defended the Endangered Species Act. The last major threat was back in 1996 during the Gingrich Revolution. EEN’s efforts — including a press conference with a cougar, which … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): The top 1 percent of families in the United States took home, on average, 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent in 2015, according to a new EPI report by Estelle … Continued
One of the biggest challenges you and I face as climate hawks is the fossil fuel industry’s ability to flood the political system with money. That’s why we’ve been at the forefront of asking candidates to take the No Fossil … Continued