Tag: government assistance
The results of the biggest study on guaranteed income programs are...
Over time, does that income transform people’s lives?
Democrats propose $300 billion investment to treat housing as human right
"The crisis of housing instability is one that can be fixed by investing in housing infrastructure and supportive services for vulnerable communities."
Accountability is the start of true recovery
People’s Action welcomes these much-needed investments, and stands ready to defend our priorities and the communities that need recovery most.
What the expanded child Tax credit means to me
Now families like mine, and every other family with kids, get life-changing help deposited directly into their bank accounts.
‘Happy Labor Day everyone!’: Millions lose unemployment aid on worker holiday
The loss of federal unemployment assistance at this moment "will be a double whammy of hardship" for the unemployed and their families.
Support for families needs to be permanent
"The pandemic didn’t create the impossible conditions facing moms—it only exacerbated them."
A food stamp indignity worthy of Dickens
Behind the White House's demeaning "food box" idea is a plan to eliminate food aid for poor people completely.
Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ delivers an empty promise
The administration and its GOP allies are threatening these Americans with even greater hunger and privation.
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Austria blocks US warplanes as European allies distance themselves from Trump’s Iran war
Austria invokes neutrality law to deny U.S. military airspace access as Spain, Switzerland, and others limit cooperation and criticize the legality of the conflict.
Blowback 2026
The Price of Empire and the costs of War on Iran.
Trump threatens to bomb Iran into the ‘Stone Ages’ as experts warn of possible...
Threats to destroy Iran’s electric grid and bridges raise alarm among legal scholars as strikes hit medical, energy, and civilian infrastructure.
Mark Carney pledges $1B in taxpayer money for a ‘carbon bomb’ project
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
The US war on Cuba’s doctors
“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve done for rural and poor Jamaicans is immeasurable.”