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...
#FoodFri Tweetchat 9/18: How do hunger & poverty data relate to upcoming budget fight?
Joanna Sandager,
September 14, 2015
This Friday join MomsRising, Coalition for Human Needs, and National Women’s Law Center for a #FoodFri Tweetchat from 1-2pm ET. During this tweetchat we will be discussing the 2014 USDA hunger data, as well as the newly released Census data on poverty and healthcare, and how it relates to the upcoming budget...
Resources from Around the Coalition: Paid Sick Days, Child Tax Credits, the Budget Resolution and More
William Marker,
September 11, 2015
Economic mobility. Paid sick days. Child tax credits. CHN’s coalition members are producing great work on very important issues. This month, we continue our Resources from around the Coalition blog series, highlighting important resources you should be aware of. ♦ The National Partnership for Women & Families recently released a...
Low-Wage Workers See Largest Drop in Real Wages
Lecia Imbery,
September 4, 2015
Today’s jobs report saw unemployment fall again, down to 5.1 percent. While that’s great, it doesn’t say enough about the losses workers have been taking for far too long. Just in time for Labor Day, a new report from the National Employment Law Project shows that, after taking inflation into...
