Task Force Calls for National Strategy to End Childhood Poverty
May 16, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
The American Pediatric Association (APA) has launched the APA Task Force on Childhood Poverty to pursue a national agenda alleviating the effects of poverty on child health and well-being. View full report
Poverty as a Childhood Disease
May 15, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
Poverty is an exam room familiar. From Bellevue Hospital in New York to the neighborhood health center in Boston where I used to work, poverty has filtered through many of my interactions with parents and their children. I ask about sleeping arrangements. Mother, father, older child and new baby live in one bedroom that they’re [...]
House Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Would Cut Nearly 2 Million People off SNAP
May 14, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
By Dottie Rosenbaum and Stacy Dean The House Agriculture Committee’s proposed farm legislation would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) by almost $21 billion over the next decade, eliminating food assistance to nearly 2 million low-income people, mostly working families with children and senior citizens. The proposal [...]
FREE SCREENING of the FILM ON HUNGER
May 14, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
“A Place at the Table” Narrated by Jeff Bridges Followed by an open mic discussion and an optional Bread for the World “Offering of Letters” to President Obama and Congress. Fifty million people in the U.S. – one in four children – don’t know where their next meal is coming from. This film examines the [...]
New Polling Data Show Strong Support for SNAP
May 10, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
“Any cut to SNAP means less food in the refrigerator for struggling seniors, families with children, veterans, people with disabilities, and unemployed people in Pennsylvania. Voters recognize the harsh impact of such cuts, and it is time for Congress to come to the same conclusion,” said SW PA Food Security Partnership. See the full report…
Sign-on: WIC Coalition Partner Letter
April 26, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
The National WIC Association encourages your organization to please sign their coalition partner letter, , to the Senate and House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee members, that urges them to fully fund WIC in FY 2014 at a level that ensures that no eligible applicants are turned away and which supports current and anticipated WIC participation levels.
Annual Report Tracks Policymakers’ Record on Poverty Issues
April 25, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law released its 2012 Poverty Scorecard, which details legislative efforts to alleviate poverty in the United States. The scorecard assigns grades to federal lawmakers according to their voting records on key poverty issues. The report finds that in 2012 Congress did relatively little to help the 46 million Americans [...]
As School Year Nears End, USDA Promotes Summer Food Service Program
April 23, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
While 21 million children receive free or reduced-price school meals during the school year, only one out of every ten of them also receives free summer meals through the summer food programs, writes USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon in this op-ed. “Clearly, there is a gap that needs filling.” Concannon encourages schools, churches, recreation centers, [...]
COMMUNITY HEALTH FORUM – MAY 6, 2013
April 23, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
Momentum Builds to Remove “Welfare” from PA Agency’s Name
April 22, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
HARRISBURG – The name Department of Public Welfare was no doubt seen as an improvement when the state came up with it nearly a century ago, merging two older offices – the Board of Charities and the Committee on Lunacy. But now, 90 years later, Pennsylvania is one of just two states in the nation [...]
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
April 22, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
Two ABCD Sessions: Asset-Based Community Development, 8:30 AM–12:00 Noon: a workshop on the principles and practices of ABCD. Building Communities from the Inside Out—The ABCD Approach, 4:30-7:00 PM: learn how to use this approach in your neighborhood and help to build an ABCD network in southwestern Pennsylvania. Click on this link for details
Report Examines Effects of Unemployment on Economic Mobility and Security
April 18, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
A report from The Pew Charitable Trusts Economic Mobility Project explores the impact of unexpected financial setbacks like job loss on American families. Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment finds that savings and assets are often more important than overall household income when it comes to preserving a family’s economic security. In addition, minorities and [...]
TEACH-IN on Poverty, Inequality, and Hunger
April 12, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
WHY A TEACH-IN? This series of interactive and educational events aims to bring awareness to the systemic issues of poverty, social inequality, and food insecurity. Join us in a dialogue about these important issues during Pitt’s Partnership for Food Campaign throughout April, and please support the campus food campaign. Please click on this link for more [...]
Report Examines Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Household Well-Being
April 12, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides work, income, education and health benefits to recipients and their children (27.5 million families in 2010). The report,Earned Income Tax Credit Promotes Work, Encourages Children’s Success at School, Research Finds, notes that the EITC’s benefits extend [...]
Immigration Reform as a Way to Reduce Poverty
April 12, 2013 By fbpflowers Leave a Comment
In the latest commentary for Spotlight, contributor Andrew Wainer, senior immigration policy analyst at Bread for the World Institute, asserts that reforming the country’s immigration policies would lead to greater financial security for immigrant families. Wainer notes that unauthorized immigrants often come to this country to escape inequality, limited economic opportunity and food insecurity in their home [...]
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