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There Just Aren’t Enough Services to Prevent Homelessness

When I worked with people experiencing homelessness, I kept hearing about the obstacles to help. Then I experienced them myself.

Doesn’t sound very Christlike, does it?

My family is still financially recovering from the birth of my daughter 14 years ago. Child care and paid leave should be election issues.

When pregnancies go wrong, more men are seeing their partners suffer the horrors of delaying or forgoing care. And they’re speaking out.

Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize, and other benefits for workers.

GOP officials continue to falsely accuse, harass, intimidate, and even prosecute voters of color. This is quintessential voter intimidation.

Springfield, Ohio’s immigrant influx is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they lie.

Further proof that an issue once considered a political hot button has gone mainstream.

From university campuses to the halls of power, young climate heroes are leading — and winning — the fight for a more sustainable future.

Six ways the right-wing playbook hurts children, families, and our communities — all to make the wealthy a little wealthier.