Families & The Federal Budget

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 20, 2015

After waiting until the last possible minute to act, Congress recently averted a shutdown of the federal government by passing a “Continuing Resolution” (CR) for the 2016 federal fiscal year that began on October 1, 2015. Yet this short-term action, which only keeps the government open until mid-...

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David J. Socolow

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

October 20, 2015

As the economic challenges facing today’s students gain national political attention, it is critical to focus on a growing proportion of our student population – student parents. Indeed, the numbers may surprise you: approximately one quarter of today’s students have children , and fifty percent of...

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Konrad Mugglestone

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 20, 2015

Dear women nationwide, My name is Randi Schmidt. I am a child advocate who is writing to every woman who, as a child, lived through economic hardships such as hunger, a parent losing their job, falling ill or dying, or whose family struggled to get by paycheck-to-paycheck. I ask you to remember who...

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Randi Schmidt

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 20, 2015

Since joining RESULTS earlier this year, I’ve learned to understand the power of my own voice. If I speak up and demand change — and if other ordinary people do the same — our elected representatives will listen. That’s why advocacy is such an incredible force. It has the capacity to transform...

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Ruth Innocent

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

The 80th anniversary of unemployment insurance (UI) passed with little notice in August. Passage of time alone does not explain UI’s sad, sorry state. Instead, deliberate limitations were built into the program’s beginnings while others have been adopted during its history. Studies show that women...

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Rick McHugh

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

This is a somewhat abbreviated version of a post published on Poverty & Policy. You can read it here: http://wp.me/pobp0-289 I first met Peter* on a street corner in my neighborhood, where he was selling Street Sense , the newspaper for homeless people in the District of Columbia. He now does...

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Kathryn Baer

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

All at once, I changed jobs and our part-time babysitter moved on after three terrific years: the scramble was on for loving, enriching child care at a price that didn’t break our family’s budget. Maybe you’ve been there. Maybe it was 30 years ago, or maybe just last year. Maybe you’re not a parent...

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Lindsay Koshgarian

Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

The U.S. is expected to reach the debt ceiling in just 18 days, on November 3. And then the trouble starts.

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Lindsay Koshgarian

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

Have you ever had to choose between medicine and gasoline? What about rent and car insurance? How about keeping your phone on and electricity? Every day, these are the sorts of decisions that far too many people living in the United States have to make. Poverty remains stubbornly and unacceptably...

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Linda Meric

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

Some of the most burdensome health conditions our communities and families face can be prevented. Yes, it is easier said than done, but we must take action when more than half of all adults in the U.S. have a chronic health disease and 7 in 10 adult deaths are caused by ones such as cancer, heart...

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