From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Now that President Trump has rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Congress has limited time to protect dreamers from deportation and pass the Dream Act. DACA has provided nearly 800,000 immigrant youth the … Continued
The Senate leadership and Trump Administration are pulling out all the stops now to get at least 50 Republicans to vote for the Graham-Cassidy bill to dramatically cut and later repeal most of the Affordable Care Act. They only have until … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Last Sunday in Plano, Texas, a man fatally shot eight people at his estranged wife’s Dallas Cowboys watch party, including his wife. He was stopped after a police officer arriving on the scene heard gunfire, was … Continued
From Americans for Financial Reform (http://www.ourfinancialsecurity.org): The House of Representatives voted to strip the CFPB of all authority over payday lenders. The House Appropriations Bill includes language to eliminate the Consumer Bureau’s authority to enforce the law against payday lenders … Continued
One of Pennsylvania’s two for-profit prisons — for now. Photo via Philly.com. By Matt Stroud, ACLU-PA Criminal Justice Researcher With Pennsylvania’s troubling record of sending more kids to prison for life than any other state; of shielding body camera footage … Continued
Rolf Pendall, Evelyn Blumenberg, Casey Dawkins June 22, 2016 Download pdf Abstract This essay argues that transportation policies need to overcome the “cars versus transit” mentality that isolates the urban poor from economic opportunities. It proposes creating new regional coalitions … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Faith communities are calling on Congress to act immediately and pass a clean Dream Act of 2017. The Dream Act would not only protect DACA recipients from deportation and detention, it would also create … Continued
From the Food Research and Action Center (http://www.frac.org): WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2017 — On the heels of today’s release of the 2016 Census American Community Survey findings, the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) launched new interactive data tools that … Continued
From the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (http://www.itep.org/): President Trump and GOP leaders have been traversing the country attempting to convince the public that corporate and individual tax cuts are in the country’s best interest. So far, the only … Continued
Posted at http://www.clasp.org/news-room/news-releases/child-adult-poverty-down-in-2016-but-policy-budget-upheavals-risk-increase-in-2017-and-beyond SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 CLASP Infographic on Census Data Here. Washington, DC, September 12, 2017—Annual data out today from the U.S. Census Bureau on poverty and income in 2016—along with a separate report on health care coverage—point to meaningful … Continued