As CCFJ gears up for the 2020 legislative session, we invite you to contribute to our year-end fundraiser. It will run from Giving Tuesday, December 3, to New Year’s Eve. Join us as we promote the common good and move the moral compass toward peace and justice! Your contributions support […]
The Issue: The Revision of Categorical Eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: The Trump administration wants to replace the ways different states calculate who is eligible for food assistance through SNAP, with a single federal standard. Currently, states may raise the eligibility limit for families for low-income families whose childcare […]
The Collaborative Center for Justice staff submitted an objection to a proposed Trump administration rule change that would leave 3.1 million residents food insecure. See our comment below. Click here to read our explanation of the public comment period, and click here to submit your own comment in opposition to […]
Background One of the ways that the Trump administration pushes already vulnerable populations further to the margins is through unilateral executive action. They have rolled back, or altogether cut, pre-existing regulations that touch on nearly every area of our lives. We are called, then, to bring our voices to these […]
A cursory reading of Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home could leave one with the impression that the preferential option for the poor, as a concept, is unimportant to the document. After all, Pope Francis only mentions it once, and it occurs all the way down in the 158th […]
It is hot. Globally, July 2019 was the hottest month in our 139 years of modern record-keeping. Among other things, we saw one of the great melting events of the Greenland ice sheets, a deadly heatwave descend upon Europe, and months of flooding across the Midwestern United States. While communities […]