Senate Farm Bill Action Needed

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June 7, 2012

Action Alert, Women, Children, & Families

Senate Farm Bill Action Needed

Senate Farm Bill Immediate Action Needed: Urge Senator Blumenthal and Senator Lieberman to Co-Sponsor Gillibrand Amendment to Restore SNAP Cuts Farm Bill Update This week, the Senate is expected to begin consideration of the Farm Bill (S. 3240). The proposal includes a $4.5 billion cut to SNAP over 10 years […]

April 30, 2012

Action Alert, Budget & Taxes, Women, Children, & Families

Increase Connecticut’s Minimum Wage – Still Alive!

Increase Minimum Wage: Call Your Senator Please call your Senator this week and ask her/him to support increasing the minimum wage. Please -Click here to find your Senator and call today to tell him or her you support increasing the minimum wage! Efforts to increase Connecticut’s minimum wage are still alive and need […]

February 17, 2012

Women, Children, & Families

The Protect Our Kids Act

More than seven children die from abuse and neglect every day in America – some 2,500 a year – reflecting the estimated 50 percent undercounting in the officially estimated figure of 1,537. A child is abused or neglected every 36 seconds in the United States, yet only 40 percent of […]

February 9, 2012

Human Rights Issues, Immigration, Women, Children, & Families

Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress

Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress by Michelle Chen The fundamental injustice of the tax system grows clearer as tax day looms ominously over working people and a few horde more and more of the nation’s wealth. Short of a total collapse of capitalism, the primary redistributive […]

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