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Ed note: In America, a person is considered to be in poverty if they make under $11,000 a year, meaning most people with minimum wage jobs are in poverty and one in 45 children in the U.S...
New America Media, Profile, Viji Sundaram
Photo: Brenda Washington in her tiny room, its shared bathroom down the hall. ..
New America Media, First Person, We’Ced staff
Editor’s Note: In 2009, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits – commonly known as food stamps — by 13.6 percent, as a way to bring relief to struggling Americans during the economic recession...
Produced by Michelle Zenarosa
Affordable housing is a constant struggle for many who live in Long Beach...
DEARBORN, Mich. — In Michigan, 1.8 million people will see a cut in their food assistance benefits this fall, when a temporary boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps — is set to expire, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based..
By Samantha Mehlinger – Staff Writer, Long Beach Business Journal
Housing Long Beach (HLB) is advocating priorities to be included in the city’s updated Housing Element draft, which is being reviewed by the city’s planning commission and released to the public June 20...
Let’s dialogue on this.
In their new book, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, co-authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube describe the recent rapid rise in suburban poverty and lay out a new metropolitan policy agenda that uses limited resources in more effective ways to create better connections between low-income residents and economic opportunity region-wide...
It was about 9 p.m. on election night at Pizza Pi Restaurant on Broadway and Lime...
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