Fourteen anti-hunger bills are on the table in NJ
Anti-hunger advocates and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin cite the Garden State’s growing and grim statistics. Coughlin says about one in eight, or 266,000 people, are affected by food insecurity.
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How Work Requirements for Social Security Programs Impact People in Need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02BSr0W5rU From our partners at PBS Newshour Weekend: President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month pushing certain work requirements for access to social security programs like Medicaid. But lawmakers in Maine, which requires individuals work at least 20…
The Real Cost of Child Care in Juneau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=162&v=OttOcZQgt-w This piece was produced by our partners at KTOO Juneau. Working parents looking for child care can find themselves without many options in Juneau. Like a lot of things in Alaska, it’s expensive — sometimes costing more than $1,000…
Millionaire Activists Ask to Pay More Taxes
The cost of living in the state of New York is sky high, so it’s surprising when someone steps up and asks to pay more taxes. Filmmaker and CEO of Fork Films Abigail Disney, along with fifty other millionaires in…
Meet a couple separated by thousands of miles and America’s new refugee policies (WATCH)
The U.S. has accepted more refugees than any country since 1980, but the Trump administration is now reversing course. Matt Katz reports for NewsHour Weekend, in partnership with public radio station WNYC, on the uncertainty faced by a married refugee…
NJ’s Affordable Housing Crisis: How Are Towns Meeting Demand?
The State Supreme Court’s Mount Laurel decision on affordable housing has confounded municipalities and complicated urban planning since it was handed down
Governor Christie Helps House Families in Need
The Keeping Families Together program aims to curb homelessness and will now be expanding to Hudson and Middlesex Counties.
Work & Happiness
With the continuing debate over budget priorities and social programs, Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare takes what some might feel is a controversial position: that it is the welfare system itself that keeps some people in a…
The Bipartisan Idea That Gives a Tax Boost to Childless Workers
A group of low-income workers in New York City are getting a larger tax refund this year. It’s part of an experiment to see what would happen if the lawmakers expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, a four-decade-old program with…
Plans to Prohibit Smoking in Public Housing Has Residents Fired Up
The CDC says not smoking in public housing could save New Jersey $4.7 million.