A new report (.pdf) out this week from the Government Accountability office examines the number of homeless female veterans, and the numbers are astounding: “Limited VA data show the number of women veterans it has identified as homeless more than doubled, from 1,380 in fiscal year 2006 to 3,328 in fiscal year 2010. Although these data are not generalizable to the overall population of...
Growing up, my family did not have a lot of money, so my mom was always grateful for the benefit of the Child Tax Credit. That refund was a safety net, money we often used to buy school supplies or help pay bills that we were struggling to keep up on. Like me and my mom, millions of families depend on the Child Tax Credit to help when things are tight. Many of those hard...
People were stunned when they heard that East Haven, Connecticut Mayor Joseph Maturo said he “might have tacos” in response to a question about what he was going to do to reach out to the Latino community in light of a federal probe of four of his city’s police officers. But to people familiar with East Haven, it sadly came as no surprise to hear the now infamous remarks...
Something seems to be missing these days in America, and it’s the spirit of solidarity. It seems like we’ve been a country of “what’s in it for me” for a long, long time. The lack of solidarity in this country was evident to me when I attended Tavis Smiley’s Remaking America “From Poverty to Prosperity” discussion in Washington, D.C., recently....
