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Kick Start the Economy
Latest News HNR: Senate Announces a Step Towards Meeting Emergency Needs (7/21/08) HNR: Victory: 13 More Weeks of Unemployment Benefits; Congress Enacts and President Signs Bill Adding Domestic Items to War Funding (7/1/08) HNR: Millions Running Out of Jobless Benefits: House Takes Strong Vote to Help (6/13/08) HNR: Domestic Priorities Make it into Supplemental Bill (5/23/08) Half in Ten Campaign Urges Senate Appropriators to Pass a Stimulus Package that Alleviates Mounting Economic Hardship and Boosts the Economy (5/12/08) HNR: Unemployment Insurance, Medicaid, and Veterans’ Benefits Tangled in Funding Disputes (5/12/08) Salem-News.com: Coalition Releases Report Detailing Counter Recession Measures to Address Rising Needs (5/9/08) Press Release: Congressman McGovern and Human Needs Groups Call on Congress to Boost State Economies, Help American Families (5/8/08) Press Statement from Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, Calling on Congress to Pass Counter Recession Measures to Meet Rising Needs(5/8/08) 80 National Organizations Sign Letter Urging Congress to take Actions to Boost the Economy & Help People (5/1/08) HNR: House May Include Anti-Recession Measures in Supplemental Appropriations Bill (4/29/08) CPC: Progressive Leaders Press for Immediate Action on 2nd Economic Stimulus Package Apart from Iraq War Spending (4/18/08) HNR: The Need Grows for More Federal Help to Curb the Recession (4/14/08) HNR: Congress Finalizes Economic Stimulus Package (2/15/08) HNR: Action on the Stimulus Package Delayed in the Senate (2/1/08) LCCR-CHN letter: Support an Effective Stimulus Package that Puts Money in the Hands of People Who Will Spend It (1/28/08) 750 National, State and Local Organizations Sign Letter for Right Plan to Kick Start the Economy (1/28/08) CBPP: Administration Stimulus Plan Fails Tests for Achieving Most Effective Stimulus; Gives Less Favorable Treatment to Families Under $40,000 (1/18/08) CEPR: President Bush's Stimulus Plan is a Positive Step in Confronting Crisis (1/18/08) OMB Watch: Temporary and Targeted: The Basics of an Economic Stimulus Package (1/08/08)
Policy Analysis, Research & Proposals
Families USA: Precarious Position: States Must Balance Declining Revenues with a Growing Need for Medicaid (July 2008) CAP: Running on Fumes: Rising Gas Prices Add to the Strain on Families' Already Squeezed Budgets (6/30/08) CEPR: The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers (6/24/08) The Mobility Agenda: Work-Life Policies for the Twenty-First Century Economy (6/11/08) CLASP: Low-Income Workers and Families Hardest Hit by Economic Decline Need Help Now (6/9/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses (April 2008) EPI: Making the Case - Again - for an Economic Rebound (5/15/08) NELP: Estimated Number of Workers Eligible for Extended Unemployment Benefits Under Supplemental Spending Package (5/14/08) CHN & ECAP: Towards Shared Recovery: Congress Must Do More to Reverse the Recession (4/11/08) CLASP: Low-income Workers and Families Hardest Hit by Economic Decline Need Help Now (4/7/08) CEPR: What We're In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession (January 2008) NWLC: Women Hit by the Economic Downturn Need Quick and Targeted Assistance: Expanded Unemployment Insurance, Increased Food Stamps, & Fiscal Relief to Protect Medicaid, Child Support Enforcement and Other Vital Services (1/28/08) CHN: Leaving Out Millions Whose Spending Would Spur the Economy (revised 1/28/08) CBPP: Dispelling Confusion on Food Stamps, Tax Rebates, and the Stimulus Package: Speaker's Statement on Food Stamps at National Press Club was Mistaken (1/26/08) Brookings: If, When, How: A Primer on Fiscal Stimulus (January 2008) CAP Action Fund: A Practical and Progressive Economic Stimulus and Recovery Plan (1/17/08) CBPP: Economic Policy in a Weakening Economy (revised 1/17/08) CEPR: The Need for an Economic Stimulus Package (January 2008) CBPP: The Four Pieces of Effective Stimulus: Unemployment Insurance, State Relief, Food Stamps, and Tax Refunds (1/14/08)
Towards Shared Recovery Webinar
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