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Bill O’Reilly Denied Child Hunger Exists. Here’s How Four Mothers Who Have Faced Hunger Responded.
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October 9, 2015

This post was originally published by TalkPoverty.org on October 8, 2015. Unsatisfied with the right-wing media’s usual poor-shaming, Bill O’Reilly has a new target: hungry kids. Although 15.3 million children live in households that struggle to put food on the table, Bill O’Reilly used a recent show to peddle his theory that...

A Quarter of American Men Live In or Near Poverty
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October 7, 2015

This post was originally published by the San Francisco Chronicle on October 2, 2015. Derrick, a 28-year-old Richmond man with an associate’s degree, loves his job doing after-school mentoring, tutoring, and coaching sports with elementary students in West Oakland, but with only 21 hours at work each week at $12.50...

Human Needs Report: Appropriations, Tax Cuts, Sentencing Reform and More
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October 6, 2015

CHN just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. This edition includes articles on appropriations, tax policy, nutrition programs, social security, and sentencing reform. See below for the full analysis and links to each section of the report....

URGENT ACTION: 3 ways to tell Congress to #StopTheCuts
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October 1, 2015

Congress averted a shutdown and passed short-term funding through December 11. But their work is not done. America needs a full-year plan to increase funding – and Congress needs to get to work NOW. Programs that support housing, Head Start, job training, nutrition aid, and education are all at risk. Your...

Resources from Around the Coalition: Poverty, Wage Gap, Economic Growth and More
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September 25, 2015

Poverty. Wage gap. Economic growth. Following the Census Bureau’s release of annual poverty data and the release of CHN’s national poverty report, we wanted to highlight some amazing and related work by our coalition members in our Resources from the around the Coalition blog series. ♦ The National Women’s Law...

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