Washington State Senator David Frockt (D) and Representative Bill Hinkle (R-Cle Elum) discuss their support for policies that require state public assistance programs ...
Jan Richter says that this year’s Kids Count data book shows that kids and families are doing their part, but we as a nation are not doing ours to protect our ...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s latest KIDS COUNT Data Book shows both promising progress and discouraging setbacks for the nation’s children: While their ...
Food banks and soup kitchens alone won’t lift families out of hunger and poverty. We need a federal budget that supports the most vulnerable among us, according ...
The Forum for Youth Investment's Elizabeth Gaines takes a look at two annual children's budgets, released in the summer of 2012. The bottom line: We need to ...
Timothy Warfield, executive director at the National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP), and Mark Schmeissing, NASCSP senior policy analyst, ...
The infant mortality rate, the preterm birth rate, and the adolescent birth rate all continued to decline, average mathematics scores increased for 4th and 8th ...
Corporate Voices for Working Families has joined Silicon Valley technical start up company, LearnUp, and the California Community College system to make a commitment ...
So-called “place-based strategies” have been gaining attention for their cross-cutting approaches to delivering housing, education and health care in a ...
Celebrity chef and TV personality Mario Batali took the Food Stamp Challenge to raise awareness about potential cuts to SNAP-- he fed his family on a $4/person per ...
While most states posted modest gains over the past 12 months, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and New Hampshire were among seven states that lost jobs. Check out this ...
Instead of helping the long-term unemployed in the United States weather the storm and find ways to re-enter the workforce, our nation is moving in the opposite ...
In this webcast series, Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter and senior advisor to President Goerge W. Bush Michael Gerson discusses poverty, ...
We live in an age of great technology, when information can be shared instantly. And yet, our current models of determining eligibility for public benefits like ...
In a new commentary series on the fight to end childhood hunger and food insecurity in America, Joel Berg, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and ...
Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contends that targeted and effective efforts are needed to ...
To help generate the savings required by the House-approved budget, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on April 18 to eliminate the Social Services Block Grant ...
