#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...
Fact of the Week: More than 60 Percent of American Adults Will Spend a Year in Relative Poverty
Lecia Imbery,
August 26, 2015
Think poverty only happens to other people? Think again. Nearly 62 percent of American adults will spend a year struggling in relative poverty, according to a recent report from Mark Rank, professor at Washington University, and Thomas Hirschl, professor at Cornell University. The report found that, between the ages of...
Help Millions of Workers Get the Overtime Pay They Deserve
Lecia Imbery,
August 20, 2015
Millions of workers across America are working longer hours without getting paid for them, thanks to an outdated regulation. Last month, we highlighted a Department of Labor proposal to fix the overtime rule and ensure that an exemption meant for highly-paid white-collar employees no longer hurts low- and middle-income earners....
