Wince of the Week, February 24- March 2, 2013. Our EHRP team winced when we read this excerpted from a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report,”TANF Emerging from t[...]
Mar 1 2013
Quote of the Day, February 6th, 2013, excerpted from “Hard Times, USA: Would You Consider Thinking Differently About Poverty and Poor and Homeless People?” by Don Hazen[...]
Feb 6 2013
DC Hunger Solutions is sponsoring the 2012 Food Stamp Challenge in the nations capital. The Food Stamp Challenge gives participants a view of what life can be like for millions of [...]
Oct 9 2012
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 [...]
Sep 19 2012
Tagged: Child Tax Credit, children, CTC, Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC, families, poor, poverty, Single Mothers, tax, taxes
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[...]
Jul 20 2012
Quote of the Day, June 20, 2012 Children in immigrant families experience a much higher poverty rate than children with U.S.-born parents. Consistent with their median family incom[...]
Jun 20 2012