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

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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