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The case for a higher minimum wage
The political posturing over raising the minimum wage sometimes obscures the huge and growing number of low-wage workers it would affect. An estimated 27.8 million people would earn more money under the Democratic proposal to lift the hourly minimum from $7.25 today to $10.10 by 2016. And most of th...
Most African leaders not making promised investments in agriculture: 10 years after committing to increase government spending on food production, onl...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The African Union commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the Maputo Declaration on agricultural development with the launch of the “Year of Agriculture and Food Security” last week at its summit in Addis Ababa....
Abracadabra, you’re a part-timer–How corporate America used the great recession to turn good jobs into bad ones
Watch closely: I’m about to demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession....
Nutrition title of farm bill agreement drops Draconian cuts and represents reasonable compromise
The proposed farm bill conference agreement announced today represents a relatively favorable outcome for SNAP and most of the millions of low-income Americans who rely on it, especially in light of what might have occurred or what may occur if Congress rejects this agreement and leaves it to the ne...
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IF you’re confused about all the turmoil in the Arab world and asking how the United States should respond, I find it useful to consider three questions:...
The earned income tax credit: One anti-poverty initiative both sides can agree on
While liberals and conservatives differ sharply in assessing the War on Poverty,[1] they seem to agree that we must do more to help low-income childless workers to succeed in the workplace — most likely by strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which currently does little for this grou...
The case for a stronger minimum wage
A proposal before Congress to strengthen the minimum wage would help low-wage workers while having little impact on employment, our new report explains. Here’s the opening: ...
Church World Service applauds passage of food aid funding and reforms
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Seeking ways to help the poor and childless
Last Friday at the Food Bank for New York on 116th Street, I caught a glimpse of the many shapes of need....
It is expensive to be poor. Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t sav...
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a move that was unprecedented at the time and remains unmatched by succeeding administrations. He announced a War on Poverty, saying that its “chief weapons” would be “better schools, and better health, and better homes, and better training, an...
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