Fact of the Week: 1 in 7 Americans Rely on Food Pantries
Lecia Imbery,
August 27, 2014
More than 46 million Americans, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors, rely on food pantries and meal programs to feed themselves and their families, according to a study released last week by Feeding America. That’s 1 in 7 people in the U.S. Hunger in America, the study produced...
Head Smacker: Corporations Change Citizenship to Avoid Paying Their Fair Share
Lecia Imbery,
August 21, 2014
Corporate inversion has been all over the news lately. It’s the process by which American corporations renounce their U.S. “citizenship” and, often by buying a smaller company overseas, incorporate in a foreign country, without much change in its operations. This allows these companies to get all the benefits of being...
Fact of the Week: Millions of Part-time Workers are Still Looking for Full-time Work
Lecia Imbery,
August 21, 2014
“Vicki Lira lost her full-time job of 20 years when the printing plant she worked in shut down in 2006. Then she lost a job processing mortgage applications when the housing market crashed. Vicki faced some very difficult years. At times she was homeless. Today she enjoys her part-time job...
When Enough Gets to be Enough
Tamika Middleton,
August 20, 2014
{Editor’s note: We at CHN, like so many nationwide, are dismayed by the violence taking place in Ferguson and want to share the perspectives of people like Tamika Middleton who are taking action. We welcome comments and additional posts.} On Monday night, thousands of people marched through downtown Atlanta in the...
Unemployment Insurance: A 79-Year Old Promise to American Workers That Needs Renewing
Jessica Schieder,
August 15, 2014
This post was originally published on the Center for Effective Government’s blog on August 14. “What was the New Deal?…It was, I think, basically an attitude…that found voice in expressions like ‘the people are what matter to government,’ and ‘a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the...
