Earlier this month we joined dozens of affordable housing advocates to speak out in support of Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Lavelle’s proposed Housing Opportunity Fund. Here’s why.
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Earlier this month we joined dozens of affordable housing advocates to speak out in support of Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Lavelle’s proposed Housing Opportunity Fund. Here’s why.
The idea that only some Americans in poverty deserve help stems from assumptions about poverty and work that don’t match up with reality.
The food stamps work requirement is seen as an employment incentive for people in poverty. Here’s why it’s completely misguided.
We can’t pay for the government we really need if state lawmakers are unwilling to even pay for the government we have.
Starting next year thousands of PA residents will lose their SNAP benefits. Why this is happening and how to help those facing food stamp work requirements.
Beginning in 2016, able-bodied adults in Pennsylvania will have to be working to receive food stamps. Our new staff researcher shares her plans to help those affected by that policy […]
Although farmers markets have long been a popular source of healthy food, people receiving food stamps have mostly been excluded from these markets due to a lack of access.
It is now well past the June 30 deadline for a 2015-16 PA budget and negotiations between Gov. Wolf and state Republican legislators are said to be frozen.
Pittsburgh City Council has now passed a bill to guarantee paid sick leave for the 50,000 Pittsburgh workers who don’t have it, and makes clear why. How it will affect […]
Two brothers from Oaxaca are now a part of the fresh food experience at this Citiparks farmers market every Thursday.