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Schools Meals Whistleblower to Team Up with National and Local Anti-Hunger Leaders
Former school food worker Stacy Koltiska, Hunger Free America’s Joel Berg, and our Ken Regal are calling on Congress to make free school meals available for all children.
News Release: Regional Nonprofits Partner for Voter Engagement
Just Harvest is honored to be one of the 17 organizations participating in Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership’s nonpartisan Nonprofit Vote voter engagement program for the 2016 election.
News Release: Poverty Remains Stuck in Pennsylvania
Poverty in Pennsylvania and Allegheny County failed to significantly improve between 2013 and 2014, and is particularly affecting children and minorities. Looming cuts to federal funding for safety net and […]
News Release: Just Harvest’s Fresh Access Program Expands for 3rd Year in a Row
Beginning in May, shoppers using food stamps at farmers markets will be getting more bang for their buck. For every $5 a shopper spends using their food stamps at fourteen […]
News Release: Just Harvest Signs On to 19 Ideas to Make PA’s Tax System More Fair
Pennsylvania has the 6th most regressive tax code in the nation. Low- and middle-income workers pay more of their income in taxes than the highest-income Pennsylvanians.
News Release: Fresh Access poster wins national Farmers Market Coalition poster contest
The Farmers Market Coalition announced that Pittsburgh’s Just Harvest won first place in FMC’s first-ever nationwide farmers market poster contest with over 160 entries. Just Harvest’s poster for Fresh Access […]
State audit of the Department of Public Welfare finds errors in caseload management
The PA Auditor General release an audit today of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) finding that the DPW put benefits on 138 ACCESS cards associated with the Social Security […]
BREAKING NEWS: Major Victory! DPW Reverses Decision to Relocate Greater Pittsburgh East CAO to McKeesport
This afternoon, DPW Deputy Secretary Lourdes Padilla announced that it had reversed its decision to close the Greater Pittsburgh East CAO effective April 1. Rallies will continue as planned to […]
News Release: Just Harvest and SEIU Local 668 Rally to Save the Greater Pittsburgh East County Assistance Office
The Department of Public Welfare (DPW) plans to close the Greater Pittsburgh East County Assistance Office (CAO) and relocate its workers to McKeesport, PA, creating considerable hardship for the working […]
