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Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget

10/19/15

In the 2013-14 school year, there were 1.36 million homeless students in the United States, doubling since before the recession.

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Linda Couch

Blog Carnivals Families & The Federal Budget Food! Health Care

10/19/15

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

10/19/15

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

10/19/15

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

10/19/15

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

10/19/15

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

Families & The Federal Budget

10/19/15

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

Health Care

10/18/15

3 John 1-2 (NIV) says, “Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.” Hum… in the household of faith, we recite that scripture so often. I think most of us truly believe the Word of God is true and we believe God to...

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Lottie Minor

Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

10/17/15

New data from Gallup suggests that 56% of moms would prefer to stay home with kids than work outside the home, and 39% of women without young children would like the role of a homemaker. This is down from recent years. According to Gallup, in the late 1990s to early 2000s, more than half of women...

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To-wen Tseng

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Food!

10/16/15

Since 1979, October 16 has been marked as World Food Day. It's a day to spread awareness and draw national attention to hunger, malnutrition and poverty, as well as draw attention to programs that work in our nation. This year World Food Day falls on a Friday and we want to commemorate it with a #...

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