DPW verification documents – why and what?; Personal money doesn’t count for special allowance policy; Welfare makes changes; Energy assistance more limited than last year’s; Get your taxes done at Just Harvest; Stimulus payment for laid-off people no longer affects food stamps
Publication Types Archives: Newsletters
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Just Harvest News, Summer 2009
State budget stalemate leaves poor behind – Just Harvest members call for action; State advocates cheer as PA Welfare Department expands food stamp eligibility; G-Force – a crash course in the G20; Legislation to help hungry children is in the hopper in Congress; Some jobless lose food stamps because of $25 stimulus check; State budget deadlock drags on; Babies and moms due for more healthy foods; Nearly $5 million left on the table by summer food programs in Pennsylvania; Nutritious breakast in school feeds more kids; Local food policy council to tackle production, access; The $400 tax credit for working people might have a hitch
Welfare Agitator, August 2009
Food stamps has new name and makes some improvements; DPW makes it harder to get special allowances – BAD!; Some unemployed lose food stamps because of stimulus; New tax credit helps working people; WIC has new food package
Just Harvest News, Spring 2009
Tax season help reaches record numbers; Welfare’s work programs don’t help clients; Congress begins to address child nutrition; Obama’s stimulus will help Pennsylvania’s poor; Just Harvest members visit state legislators; Anti-hunger activist & author visits Pittsburgh; Farmers markets in full swing; 14th empty bowls smashes records; Bruce Springsteen – working on a dream for Just Harvest; In memoriam
