Families & The Federal Budget

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget Food! Health Care

October 19, 2015

Many of you are probably familiar with WIC—the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children—and what a vital role it plays in ensuring healthy, nutritious diets for families facing financial difficulty. However, did you know that in addition to providing a healthy food...

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Elisabet Eppes

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

Some members of Congress are putting public programs that are vital to women and families on the chopping block—despite evidence showing that these programs lift millions of Americans out of poverty each year. With poverty levels as high as they are, we can’t afford to let Congress cut these...

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Amelia Bell

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

October 19, 2015

How much would it cost to #stopthecuts to all the non-defense programs threatened by sequestration next year? $37 billion . And even if the sequester is averted, funding for these programs would be at historically low levels , following years of reduced funding. Some Members of Congress refuse to...

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Reggie Oldak

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 Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

October 15, 2015

Tell Congress: Don't scare us - get to work! Increase the debt limit and #StopTheCuts by Halloween.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

October 14, 2015

Tell Congress real people are harmed when vital programs are cut. Join the #StopTheCuts twitterstorm Oct. 21, 2015 at 1pm ET.

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Lecia Imbery

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

September 18, 2015

New data released by the Census Bureau show that poverty remains too high and the economic recovery is unshared.

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget

September 12, 2015

Here’s one way the President and Congress can show their support for the millions of Americans working for relatively low wages: save key provisions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) scheduled to expire at the end of 2017. The expected push this fall to permanently...

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