Quote of the Day, April 22, 2013, excerpted from Politico, “New Debate over ‘Working Poor,’” by David Rogers “Where are the jobs?” Speaker John Boehner like[...]
Apr 22 2013
Quote of the Day, March 19, 2013 – From an editorial in the March 17, 2013 edition of the New York Times, “Unfair Punishments:” Congress embraced a destructive p[...]
Mar 19 2013
Two years ago, Harvard professor Kathryn Edin was in Baltimore interviewing public housing residents about how they got by. As a sociologist who had spent a quarter century studyin[...]
Dec 13 2012
Quote of the Day, December 13, 2012: from our latest EHRP piece, in Mother Jones: Gabe Thompson’s “Can You Survive on $2 a Day?” Welfare reform had placed strict[...]
Dec 13 2012
Quote of the Day, December 12, 2012: Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data releas[...]
Dec 12 2012
Quote of the Day, November 6, 2012 AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 6, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – With over 46 million Americans relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP), com[...]
Nov 6 2012
Quote of the Day – October 15, 2012 We are following DC Hunger Solutions’ Food Stamp Challenge this week. Here are some reflections from challenge participants as they round [...]
Oct 15 2012
Wince of the Week, October 7-13, 2012 : We are following DC Hunger Solutions’ Food Stamp Challenge this week. Our EHRP team winced when we read these stats on their site: Acc[...]
Oct 12 2012
DC Hunger Solutions is sponsoring the 2012 Food Stamp Challenge in the nation’s capital. Jessica Luna, Program Associate, DC Hunger Solutions provides some background on the role t[...]
Oct 11 2012
DC Hunger Solutions is sponsoring the 2012 Food Stamp Challenge in the nation’s capital. Jessica Luna, Program Associate, D.C. Hunger Solutions provides some reasons for the [...]
Oct 10 2012
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