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Congress’s Guide to Hunger and Your Nutrition Assistance Story
Lecia Imbery,
July 22, 2015
Nearly 16 percent of Americans – 49 million of us – struggle with hunger. That’s one out of every seven households. Hunger impacts children (16 million, in fact) and adults in every part of our country – every state and every city. This is not a partisan issue; it’s a...
Human Needs Report: Appropriations, No Child Left Behind, Child Nutrition, Family-Friendly Workplace Legislation, and More
Joanna Sandager,
July 20, 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 the ongoing appropriations process, family-friendly workplace legislation, No Child Left Behind, child nutrition, and more. See below for the full analysis and links to each...
Tell Congress it’s time to Raise the Wage
Joanna Sandager,
July 16, 2015
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for six years now. That’s barely $15,000 a year for a full-time worker—literally a poverty wage. No one should have to have to decide between clean clothes, paying their rent, or paying their cellphone bill. Tens of millions of...
Head Smacker: Misnamed “Working Families Flexibility Act” Would Give Workers Less Flexibility, Less Time and Less Pay
Lecia Imbery,
July 15, 2015
Bills in Congress are named by those who write them, which means the name can sound good even if the bill actually does the opposite of what the title implies. That’s the case with the Working Families Flexibility Act. It sounds like a good thing, right? Families would get more...
Fact of the Week: Half of Children in Public Schools are Eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch
Lecia Imbery,
July 10, 2015
Just over half of children in public schools across the U.S. were in families with near-poverty income levels that made them eligible for free or reduced price lunch in 2013. This statistic comes from the Southern Education Foundation’s research bulletin, A New Majority: Low Income Students Now a Majority in...
