Is this still the land of the free and the home of the brave, or do we now live in a country that tears families apart and drives children from public schools? These are the questions – though on a more local scale – explored in the short film series “Is This Alabama” by Hollywood director Chris Weitz. Over the course of four videos, men and women in Alabama talk about...
My upbringing wasn’t the most stable of environments. I bounced around a lot, often to less than glamorous neighborhoods. My family wasn’t a traditional, nuclear or even agreeable one at times. And many of my childhood friends have gone down unfortunate paths. Yet, despite all of this, I graduated from a prestigious high school in Cleveland, Ohio...
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...
