Congress is days away from a government shutdown. Tell them to get to work.
Joanna Sandager,
September 23, 2015
Congress needs to hear from you. We must raise our voices loud and clear and say no to government shutdown and no to cuts. After September 30, parts of the federal government will shut down if Congress does not approve FY 2016 funding. They may be ensnarled enough in divisive...
Cutting Poverty in Half Will Take a Quarter Century at This Rate
Lecia Imbery,
September 21, 2015
Even under the optimistic assumption that poverty continues to decline at the same rate it did from 2013 to 2014, it would take until 2040 for the poverty rate to be cut in half to 7.7 percent. Getting child poverty to the same level would take until 2049. These are...
Nuns on the Bus – Bridging the Divides and Transforming Politics
Richelle Friedman,
September 18, 2015
The two-week, 2000-mile, 7-state Nuns on the Bus (NOTB) trip leading up to Pope Francis’ arrival in the United States is, in essence, a listening tour with the goal of bridging what divides us and transforming politics in the process. For those of us privileged to be on the bus it...
Unshared Recovery: 46 Million Poor; Poverty Rate Unchanged
Lecia Imbery,
September 16, 2015
Below is the statement by Deborah Weinstein, CHN’s executive director, on the new poverty data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. We’ve also included tweets to share and our First Look at the data, which shows that economic recovery since the end of the Great Recession has been unshared. Unshared Recovery: 46 Million...
A message to Republican candidates ahead of tonight’s debate: Read the 2014 census poverty numbers and minimum wage polls
Andrew Yarrow,
September 16, 2015
This post was originally published on OxFam America’s blog The Politics of Poverty on September 16, 2015. The Census numbers released today confirm that millions of people are working at jobs and still living in poverty. Women and people of color are particularly hard hit by low wages. The Census Bureau reports that 10.5...
