Families & The Federal Budget

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

April 15, 2016

Maverick Bishop says he and his mom have stayed in every homeless shelter there is in San Francisco. When there wasn’t room in the shelters, they slept in hospital lobbies, along with other, even-less-desirable locations. Yesterday, he shared his story with members of Congress to try to protect and expand programs that helped him and his mom, and shed light on the need for more resources for programs to help others escape poverty.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

April 15, 2016

Hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation and poor children like Linda who rely on free and reduced price breakfast and lunch during the school year to keep the wolves of hunger at bay face a long summer of food deprivation. “It was hard without school during the summer, but being able to qualify for something like food stamps or having a food pantry near us, that helped a lot,” Linda says, but at the end of the month, “it was kind of like a hit-or-miss kind of situation.”

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

April 13, 2016

We repeatedly hear the claims that the U.S. corporate tax rate is too high. But in fact, it's well below other competitor developed nations.

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Lecia Imbery

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Military Families

April 11, 2016

Tax Day is coming up! Is your #milfamily prepared?

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Elyssa Schmier

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

April 7, 2016

Investing in housing and renters' assistance improves the health outcomes of infants and children and lowers healthcare spending.

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Lecia Imbery

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

April 6, 2016

Cross posted from Coalition for Human Needs (CHN). Back in February, we at Coalition for Human Needs told you about a tax-dodging scheme that is all too common in this day and age: Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company and one of the world’s largest, wanted to avoid $35 billion in U.S. taxes on...

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David Elliot

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

April 1, 2016

More Americans die every year from drug overdoses than they do in car crashes. That’s one of the reasons President Obama was in Atlanta this Tuesday speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit, the largest national collaboration of local, state and federal agencies, business, academia, treatment providers, counselors and advocates impacted by prescription drug abuse and heroin use.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

March 31, 2016

Members of Congress like to talk about securing the future for our children and grandchildren. Instead, Congress has foreclosed opportunity for many thousands of children because of its irresponsible failure to protect them from lead poison. Congress needs to come back and ensure that all children now threatened by such toxic inaction have the protection and services they need.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Military Families

March 28, 2016

There are two million military children in the United States and overseas locations. Like all children, Uncle Sam's kids, have health issues that need medical attention, but not all their needs are being met through TRICARE. What can we do to change this?

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Susan Reynolds

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

March 21, 2016

President Obama’s got a handful of great ideas in his budget proposal: free community college, universal preschool, and more. But he still proposes to spend more than half of our federal discretionary budget on the Pentagon and military – and only a small fraction of that actually goes to our...

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