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Childless Adults Face Food Stamp Cut-Off
Some years ago, I was fired from a job I’d had for a long time. I was told my position had been restructured out of existence. But it sure felt like firing to me. This was during a recession. And as...
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New Report Shows Huge Income gap Between Richest and Poorest in DC
Everyone who lives in the District of Columbia knows that there’s a yawning gulf between the haves and the have-nots. But the new income inequality report from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute could...
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Battle Reopens Over Definition of Homelessness
It’s sad when nonprofits that advocate for the same cause openly fight with one another. That’s what we’re seeing now as organizations dedicated to improving services for homeless people take opposite...
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No Help for Homeless DC Family, but Mayor Shortchanges Shelter Funding
I met a homeless family the other day. The mother was, to all appearances, six months pregnant. The father was tending to their toddler. They had no place to stay and no money for food. And the Family...
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House Agriculture Committee Slashes Food Stamp Program
You can’t have both guns and butter. House Republicans have taken this old piece of federal budget wisdom seriously. They’ve opted for guns — not over butter, but over food assistance for poor people....
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DC Mayor’s Budget Would Punish TANF Families for Program’s Failures
How would you like to try living on $275 a month — and in the District of Columbia no less? Inconceivable for a single person. What then for a single mother with two kids? Under Mayor Gray’s proposed...
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House Ways and Means Shifts Costs, Wipes Out Services Grants
I wouldn’t want to leave the impression that the House Agriculture Committee’s attack on the food stamp program was the only threat to low-income people spawned by the Republican majority’s effort to...
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Homeless DC Parents Fear Loss of Children … And They’re Right
I met a father at the Virginia Williams Family Resources Center, the District of Columbia’s central intake for homeless families. He was there with his wife and their baby and toddler because they were...
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How Unaffordable Is Child Care for Low-Income Parents?
A bunch of things got me wondering about child care costs. How unaffordable are they for low-income parents who don’t have the benefit of subsidies? The annual survey reports by the National...
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Fabricating a War Between the Old and the Young
Popular centrist Matt Miller has joined the chorus against health care and pension programs for seniors, i.e., Social Security and retirement benefits for state public employees. They’ve saddled the...
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