Full House could vote for commission to force cuts in Social Security, Medicare, other critical human needs programs
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Six months after Maria
David Elliot,
March 20, 2018
Tuesday, March 20 marks six months since Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, killing more than 1,000 people, destroying tens of thousands of homes, darkening much of the island for months, cutting access to clean water and uprooting the lives of millions of U.S. citizens. Today protesters will gather...
Left behind after Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico’s Children
David Elliot,
March 19, 2018
Even before Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico with historic, sustained, 155-mile-per-hour winds, the U.S. island was facing an economic catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude. For more than a decade, following a disastrous, U.S.-enforced tax policy that took effect around 2006, Puerto Rico shed jobs, suffered a loss of economic vitality, and...
Child care advocates deliver more than 43,000 petitions in support of Child Care for Working Families Act
National Women's Law Center,
March 16, 2018
Editor’s note: This piece was written by Jessica Church, Advocacy Manager for Child Care at the National Women’s Law Center. It was originally published on the National Women’s Law Center’s website on March 9. Several of the groups that participated in the event described below, including NWLC, are members of...
Fact of the Week: Only 1 in 4 unemployed workers receives unemployment insurance, a near historic low
Lecia Imbery,
March 15, 2018
Only 27 percent of unemployed workers received unemployment insurance in 2016 – a near historic low – according to a recent report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP). The report also found that the percentage of jobless workers receiving unemployment insurance (UI) has declined by 25 percent nationwide since...
Honor people lost to gun violence by seeing them and taking action
Deborah Weinstein,
March 14, 2018
Today students around the nation walked out of class for 17 minutes to commemorate the lives of those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It is the one-month anniversary of their deaths, and participants are shining a spotlight on Congress’ failure to act to curb...
