Recovery is not just about surviving substance use. For mothers and those they love, it’s about building a future where healing is possible, families are whole, and every generation has the chance to thrive.
A Wisconsin HOPE Lab study finds that two-thirds of surveyed community college students are food insecure and half are housing insecure. Even among students who work and receive financial aid, nearly a third still experience food or housing insecurity.
President’ Trump’s budget for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) proposes drastic and harmful cuts to vital employment, education, and training services that enable low-income youth and adults to improve their skills and succeed in the workforce.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) have introduced the Healthy Families Act (HFA), which would give all workers access to sick days.
SNAP is highly effective at addressing food insecurity and alleviating extreme poverty. One of the key features of SNAP is that it reaches our most vulnerable populations.
The share of households working while receiving SNAP has risen over the last two decades. For these families, safety net programs are crucial to ensure economic stability.
n March 13, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—a nonpartisan agency that provides objective budget and economic information to Congress—released its “score” of the effects of the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
At a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee, experts testified that restricting SNAP benefits to certain food types would hurt low-income families as well as burden government.
