Wince of the Week, February 10-16, 2013, our EHRP team winced when we read this from a Washington Post article, “Heart-wrenching Catch 22: Homeless families who turn to city [...]

Quote of the Day, January 14, 2013, excerpted from Prosperity Threatened: Perspectives on Child Poverty in California, by The Center for the Next Generation More than one in five c[...]

Quote of the Day, Thursday January 3, 2013– excerpted from Being Poor by blogger John Scalzi [...] Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt. Being poor is ste[...]

Wince of the Week December 9-15, 2012,  from Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week In Poverty” in The Nation: In a somewhat bizarre op-ed last Sunday, New York Times columni[...]

Wince of the Week, Oct Oct 21-28, 2012  Our EHRP team winced when we read about this in a new study just out from the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy, co[...]

Quote of the Day – October 4, 2012 “Again, poor children remain politically invisible,” said Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician, president of Children’s Health Fund and professor[...]

Quote of the Day – September 19, 2012 [...] In 2011, the Child Tax Credit lifted 1.6 million children above the poverty line and 2.9 million people overall, according to the [...]

Wince of the Week August 12 – 19, 2012 The EHRP Team winced hard when we read this: Jesse Staley, a teenager from Harts, West Virginia dreams of graduating from high school and att[...]

Quote of the Day, July 24, 2012 Josie went blind while we lived next door to her, and she lost her job because of it. Soon after, a social worker was able to help Josie get a job a[...]

Wince of the Week, July 15-21. The EHRP Team winced when we read this: After record foreclosures, layoffs and budget cuts that hit poor families the hardest, America is a country w[...]