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SOTU: Things You Can Do
Lecia Imbery,
January 17, 2015
Next Tuesday, President Obama will give the annual State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress and the nation, followed by responses from the Republican Party and the Tea Party. We’ll share our thoughts about the addresses that evening on our Voices for Human Needs blog, and we hope you’ll join...
Fact of the Week: One-Third of State Budgets Comes from Federal Funds
Lecia Imbery,
January 15, 2015
States rely heavily on money from the federal government. While taxes make up the majority of state general revenue, federal money makes up roughly 32 percent of that total. In separate reports, the National Priorities Project and the Tax Foundation both used data from the U.S. Census Bureau to come...
Head Smacker: House Jeopardizes Health Insurance for Workers While Claiming to Help Them
Lecia Imbery,
January 13, 2015
The House used the first week of the new Congressional session to pass a bill that puts health coverage and paychecks for Americans workers at risk and raises the federal deficit by $53 billion. That’s a Head Smacker in and of itself. But what makes this move even more of...
One Young Person’s Story of Homelessness
Lecia Imbery,
January 9, 2015
Dae’Jah was 13 when she first became homeless. She clearly remembers the day her mother told her they had to pack up everything they had and leave their house because they were being evicted. Her mom had lost her business and was no longer able to make the mortgage payments....
Fact of the Week: Child Care Cost is Nearly Half of Income for a Family at the Poverty level
Lecia Imbery,
January 7, 2015
With the start of the new year, many of us returned to work or school after some time off over the holidays. While parents are hard at work at jobs or bettering their education to provide for their children, roughly 11 million children younger than age five are in some...
