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'Rooting out poverty': Project NOW holds second annual Poverty Conference
Quad-City Times· 6 days ago"What if I told you that poverty is unacceptable?," said Dwight Ford, executive director of Project...
Red states fight growing efforts to give ‘basic income’ cash to residents
Idaho Capital Sun via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSouth Dakota state Sen. John Wiik likes to think of himself as a lookout of sorts — keeping an eye...
Missouri lawmakers expand private school scholarships backed by tax credits
KY3 Springfield· 6 days agoThe GOP-led House voted with a bare minimum margin of 82-69 to send the measure to Republican Gov....
If states want to enforce abortion bans, then let’s pay mothers for forced births | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt would also allow pregnant mothers to claim the fetus as a child as soon as a fetal heartbeat can...
DWP unclaimed benefits that could boost income by £2,700
Daily Express· 6 days agoUniversal Credit tops the list as the most unclaimed benefit at £8.3 billion, followed by Carer's...
Mayor Johnson's bond plan should address vacant CHA land
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoWhen the city and Chicago Housing Authority demolished distressed high-rise public housing developments under the Plan for Transformation, they promised to fill the land with housing for many ...
Missouri lawmakers expand private school scholarships backed by tax credits
FOX 2 News St. Louis· 6 days agoMissouri lawmakers have passed a bill to expand K-12 private school scholarships statewide and pump hundreds of millions of dollars more into public schools. The scholarship accounts are funded by …
Six decades later, the War on Poverty made a huge difference in Appalachia and elsewhere | Opinion
Lexington Herald-Leader· 6 days agoThis month marks the 60th anniversary of the “War on Poverty,” when President Johnson traveled to Inez, Ky. to make the case to the people of Martin County and the nation ...
What to take away from the 2024 legislative session - The Advocate-Messenger
The Danville Advocate-Messenger· 4 hours agoThe longest “long” legislative session in many years wrapped up on April 15. During long sessions,...
Kemp signs legislation establishing another voucher program in Georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 1 day agoCommonly referred to as vouchers, this will be the first such program in recent history that is open...