by Nehemiah Rolle | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
With 2014 midterm elections looming on the horizon, a recent survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for Democracy Corps and the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund illustrates how important it is for elected officials and candidates to address women’s economic needs....
by Nehemiah Rolle | Jul 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
The one thing that’s worse than the House Republican vote Thursday to pass a farm bill that did not include the nutrition assistance program commonly known as food stamps is what was likely to happen if the nutrition assistance program remained part of the bill. After...
by Nehemiah Rolle | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
While the focus on deficit reduction and austerity continues to permeate the economic dialogue, two families in Wisconsin have dealt with the everyday pains of the jobless and underpaid American middle class. Bill Moyers has charted their journey for a decade on his...
by Nehemiah Rolle | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Starting today, Massachusetts Rep. James McGovern is joining the state’s Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz and other Massachusetts officials in the “SNAP challenge.” For the next seven days, they are going to be living off a food budget of $31.50,...