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[...]

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[...]

Quote of the Day – November 26, 2012 “There’s been a lot of attention brought to how much income inequality we’ve seen in this country, thanks to Occupy Wall Street,” says He[...]

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[...]

By Dashka Slater Originally Distributed via OtherWords (OtherWords.org) For those on the economic ladder’s lowest rungs, the middle rungs have almost completely disappeared. [...]

Quote of the Day – September 20, 2012 Overall, the rate and number of people without insurance coverage dropped in 2011 for the first time since 2007, in spite of the recessi[...]

Quote of the Day, August 8, 2012 The realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor, include record unemployment and rampant corporate av[...]