| May 8, 2024 | Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI run a food pantry. I’m proud of the work we do. But if lawmakers passed a liveable minimum wage or invested more in programs like SNAP, people wouldn’t need to rely on pantries like mine. Pantries are a critical piece of the anti-hunger puzzle, but they’re...
| Apr 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf there’s one thing I could tell lawmakers, it would be to bring back the expanded, monthly, fully refundable Child Tax Credit. Those monthly payments of up to $300 per child cut child poverty nearly in half in just a few months. And when the credit expired in late...
| Apr 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs the cost of housing has exploded, so has the number of people experiencing homelessness. And unfortunately, instead of trying to house people, more states and cities are criminalizing people simply for lacking a safe place to sleep. According to the National...
| Apr 3, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedPoverty is expensive in this country. Few things illustrate that truism like overdraft charges and late fees, which are often little more than outrageous penalties for not having enough money. But there are plans in the works at the Consumer Financial Protection...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI spent my first birthday in a shelter. Decades later, after doing all I was supposed to do to lift myself up out of poverty, I’m sofa hopping with my children. I live in Las Vegas, where I work on a program helping low-income women and children find support to keep a...
