Witness Wednesday: Voices of the Unemployed
Lecia Imbery,
June 19, 2014
“I am a single father of two small children, a boy who is 5 and a little girl who is 3…. I have worked hard my entire life and have never been afraid of hard work but … it’s very hard to find work…. Unemployment isn’t something that people are...
Why have we started this new blog, Voices for Human Needs?
Deborah Weinstein,
June 16, 2014
Every day we see the good that comes from investing in people. We want to celebrate the achievements of Gena and her mother. Gena’s mom was kicked out of her parents’ home and wound up in abusive relationships. “Home life was chaotic and scary,” writes Gena for Our American Story,...
Head Smacker: Congress Allows Overseas Tax Havens to Dodge $90 Billion a Year
Deborah Weinstein,
June 16, 2014
Congress lets corporations use overseas tax havens to dodge $90 billion in taxes each year. But it refuses to extend unemployment insurance for more than 3 million workers? When a five-story office building in the Cayman Islands is the official address of 18,857 companies, it’s a pretty good hint...
Fact of the Week: Education vs. Hedge Fund Managers
Lecia Imbery,
June 16, 2014
Last year, the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers in the United States made a total of $21.15 billion – about 2.5 times as much as all the kindergarten teachers in America combined. (New York Times, Vox) In addition to the massive earnings, these hedge fund managers pay taxes at the lower...
You Say Potato: Congress Mashes it up Over WIC Food Package
Lecia Imbery,
June 16, 2014
You may have thought you’d heard it all when it comes to what Congress will choose to fight about, but that was before the Great Potato Fight of 2014. In the process of moving forward FY 2015 Agriculture Appropriations bills over the past month, members of both the House and Senate...
