As Congress looks to avoid the fiscal cliff, the Half in Ten campaign released a new report today that provides key insights into how America is faring on key indicators of cutting poverty and expanding opportunity for all.
Visit link →Latinos are keeping up with their part of the social contract—but it’s still hard to keep head above water, concludes a new study on the economic well-being of Hispanic kids.
El gobierno estadounidense sigue comprometido con una reforma migratoria integral a pesar del reciente fracaso en el Congreso de una iniciativa favorable a los estudiantes indocumentados, declaró el martes Cecilia Muñoz, alta funcionaria de la Casa Blanca.
The Obama administration will keep immigration reform as a “top priority” and is looking for bipartisan support to re-introduce the DREAM Act in Congress, a White House official said Tuesday.
Representantes del gobierno federal y de organizaciones de servicios comunitarios exigieron hoy en un foro medidas para aliviar la creciente pobreza que afecta a los 16 millones de latinos menores de 18 años.
El mes pasado la Oficina del Censo publicó los datos sobre la pobreza en el 2009, que revelaron que más de uno de cada cinco niños en Estados Unidos vivió en la pobreza el año pasado.
The Half in Ten campaign has developed a new interactive tool that will help advocates, elected officials, and policymakers get a clearer picture of how increasing poverty rates are affecting constituents.
The Census Bureau released the 2009 poverty and income data on Sept. 16. The data reveal that last year 3.7 million additional people fell into poverty, for a total of 43.6 million, the largest number since the census began publishing the data in 1959.
Earlier this year, Colorado Springs business owner Amy Mullins struck gold when a federal government job subsidies program allowed her to hire two new employees, increasing revenues at her medical lab testing facility by 32 percent. “These are employees that in May I would not have been able to hire on my own, nor possibly entertain keeping,” says Mullins.
The Half in Ten campaign, a joint partnership of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Coalition on Human Needs that seeks to cut poverty in half in 10 years, has released a new interactive map that breaks down the 2009 poverty data by state and congressional district.
I haven’t been sleeping well lately. Not ever since the new poverty statistics came out. With the deep recession, I knew they wouldn’t be good — but I could not have predicted the grim nature of the cold, hard facts.