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Why Would You Sell Your Food Stamps?
February 23, 2010In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.Food Stamps, Imran Malik and CPAC
February 22, 2010In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.Week in Review: Women's Health Crisis Affects us All
October 24, 2009Along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices For The Health Care We Need, and Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, Smith joined Laura on Monday to talk about the rampant inequalities in the existing health care system and to debate whether the proposed reforms in Congress go far enough.Is the Gender Gap Growing?
May 14, 2009In this recession, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. But women, now the primary breadwinners in many families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. For minorities the number is even lower. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Women, and especially women of color, are more likely to land the worst, lowest paying jobs, without health insurance, paid sick days or paid
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