Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Affordable Housing: How HPD Policies Hurt Low-income Families
The Joe Biden administration has made increasing affordable housing one of its main policy objectives. The best place to start is addressing the major ...
Raising the Minimum Wage Would Boost Economic Recovery —and Reduce Taxpayer Subsidization of Low-Wage Work
Photo: Wikimedia Commons President Joe Biden included a long overdue pay raise for millions of America’s minimum wage workers in his $1.9 trillion rescue ...
GAO Report: Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Big Corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s
[Poverty Wages\Corporate America] Sanders: “At a time when huge corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s are making billions in profits and giving their CEOs tens ...
Court Rejects Trump Administration’s Attempt to Restrict Food Assistance Access
[Trump Administration\Food Assistance] James: “At a time of national crisis, this decision is a win for common sense and basic human decency. This Trump ...
SANDERS AND SENATE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE BILL TO PROVIDE $2,000 PAYMENTS DURING COVID-19 CRISIS
[Economic Crisis Support Act] Senator Sanders. “The one-time $1,200 check that many Americans recently received is not nearly enough to pay the rent, put ...
NY ATTORNEY GENERAL TO TRUMP: NOW ISN’T THE TIME TO LET 3.1 MILLION STARVE
[COVID-19 SNAP Benefits] James: “With tens of millions of individuals out of work and with the nation in the middle of a public health ...
HOUSE DEMOCRATS SUPPORT LAWSUIT BLOCKING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SNAP PROGRAM CUTS FOR HUNGRY FAMILIES
[Hunger\Food Insecurity\SNAP Program] Rep. Marcia Fudge: “This is the first of three attempts to kick hungry people off SNAP, and we will be there ...
Immigrants: Although Suspended By Courts, Proposed Public Charge Rule Change Already Has Huge Chilling Effect
Migration Policy Institute’s Jeanne Batalova. Photo: C-SPAN screenshot. By Mark Heeding, Ethnic Media Services Federal courts have temporarily blocked the public charge rule change from ...
