Social Safety Net

For Latino Voters, Immigration NOT The Biggest Campaign Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Welfare, Video, Latino Voters, Food Stamps, Vanderbilt University, Illegal Immigration, Magali Sanchez Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Social Safety Net, Undocumented Immigrant, The Life of Julia, Election 2012, Pell Grants, Efren Perez, Latino Voices News

When she was 12, Magali Sanchez's parents divorced. Her mother, unable to find work in Mexico that would feed the family, made a desperate decision. ...

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You're on Your Own, Kids

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.12.2012

Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? Let me give it a whirl from the perspective of one whose own unwed mother had several abortions before yours truly was permitted to emerge.

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GOP: Killing Vulnerable Americans With Kindness - Literally

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Gop, Chip, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, Ryan Budget, Medicare, Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Children?S Health Insurance Program, Social Safety Net, Paul Ryan Budget, GOP Budget, Veterans Hospitals, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Paul Ryan, Healthcare, Politics News

As a favor to struggling Americans, Rep. Paul Ryan proposed a federal budget last week ravaging programs for the poor, elderly, disabled, young, veterans, jobless, students and other vulnerable people. Ryan did it, he said, because these programs are demeaning.

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Punishing The Poor: GOP Candidates Back Welfare Model For Food Stamps, Housing

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Welfare, Food Stamps, Economy, Jobs, Social Safety Net, Obama, Recession, Romney, Affordable Housing, 2012, Huntsman, Gingrich, Deficit, Santorum, New Hampshire, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In recent speeches and debates, Republican Presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have all invoked the 199...

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Lack of Paid Sick Days May Claim Latino Lives

Elisa Batista | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Latinos, Health, H1n1, Swine Flu, Paid Sick Days, Social Safety Net, Momsrising, Study, Productivity, Healthy Families Act, Latino Politics, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

To Latino workers, really, all American workers, I say enough is enough. We can't afford to see what will happen the next time a flu pandemic sweeps our nation.

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More Faces of Child Poverty

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Safety Net, Poverty in America, Poverty, Working Poor, Child Poverty, Child Hunger, US Poverty, Social Safety Net, Government Housing, Politics News

We have good safety net programs, and we have to make sure every child who could benefit from these programs does. Help for poor parents and children should be protected before tax breaks for wealthy corporations and millionaires.

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Europe, United States Hold Fundamentally Different Visions For Society

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Video, Values, Germany, Income Inequality, Pew Research Center, American Values, Western Europe, Social Safety Net, United States, Spain, European Values, Europe, Safety Net, Inequality, Business News

More than an ocean divides the United States and Western Europe. Americans are significantly less supportive of a social safety net than Western ...

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New Supplemental Poverty Measure Doesn't Change Reality

Elizabeth Lower-Basch | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Government, Census, Public Policy, Social Safety Net, Poverty, Politics News

However we measure it, poverty is unacceptably high and hardship is unacceptably widespread, and no focus on technical issues can obscure that fact.

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Social Justice: A Holy Struggle

Noah Baron | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Religion and Politics, Social Safety Net, Religious Left, Social Conservatives, Deuteronomy 16:20, Religious Right, Christian Social Justice, Jewish Social Justice, Religious Social Justice, Christian Conservatives, Religion News

This is a holy struggle, but it is not the one that the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells would have you believe in. Our enemy is not the poor, but poverty; it is not homosexuality, but homophobia.

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"It's the Democracy, Stupid!": The "Vague" Goals of the Other 99%

David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 12.31.2011

To help my students think about the way the market works, and especially how it affects real people, I have them play Monopoly. But I modify the rules to make the game more realistic.

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Occupy Wall Street: Handmade Signage And Street Theatre

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Photography, Signs, Millenials, Police, Federal Hall, Brooklyn Street Art, Free Speech, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Social Safety Net, Stock Exchange, Occupy Wall Street, Corporatism, Students, New York City, Jaime Rojo, Demonstraters, Mortgages, Social Media, Unemployment, Steven P. Harrington, Hashtags, George Washington, Wall Street, Political Speech, Nyse, Slidepollajax, Banks, Electronic Media, Street Theater, Public Display, Economic Insecurity, Arts News

"New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiato...

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Family Values? Conservative Economics Have Shredded Marriage Rates

June Carbone | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Marriage, Social Safety Net, Unemployment, Conservatives, Divorce, Economy, Income Inequality, Politics News

The creation of greater inequality, the shredding of the social safety net, and the increasing cost of higher education have much more do with the changing structure of the family than Hollywood mores or internet porn.

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Taking Asset Building to Scale in Federal Housing Policy

Reid Cramer | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Social Safety Net, Rental Market, Housing, Business News

Today, we spend roughly $30 billion dollars a year in rental housing assistance to benefit almost 5 million households. It is a primary part of our social safety net. But millions of eligible families don't receive any support.

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Social Security's Surgery

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Koch American Funeral Company and Associates (KAFCA), Joe the Nerd, Boneless Chicken Ranch Syndrome, Social Safety Net, Oboehner Centrist Inc, Anthonyweinerectomy, Comedy News

The only way to blunt the effect of the Koch Brothers and their Congressional Tea Party Pallbearers is to create a situation where everyone gets off their butts and onto their hind legs and starts fighting.

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What Happens To The Social Safety Net In A Government Shutdown?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, Social Security, Food Stamps, Government Shutdown, Unemployment Insurance, Social Safety Net, Medicare, Safety Net, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- What happens to the social safety net if the government shuts down on April 8? The Obama administration won’t say whether beneficia...

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America's Social Safety Net is Being Torn Apart by Budget Cuts

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeless, Poverty, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Third World America, Social-Safety-Net, Impact News

A bail out is needed for America's social safety net in order to rebuild a tattered, under-funded anti-poverty system on a scale of the $700 billion bank bailout in 2008.

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Obama's Fiscal Commission: What's Going On In There?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Alan Simpson, White House, Federal Deficit, Erskine Bowles, Bruce Reed, Social Safety Net, Obama, Defense Spending, Deficit Commission, Fiscal Policy, Video, Politics News

Members of President Obama's deficit commission huddled behind closed doors Wednesday despite pleas from the left and right that they hold all their m...

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