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“A Place At The Table” Looks at Hunger in the U.S.
Posted by Joanna Shoffner Scott on Mar. 4An estimated 50 million people in this country do not know where their next meal will come from, and one in four of the hungry are children. The documentary film, “A Place at the Table,” chronicles the economic, social and cultural implications that hunger poses and offers possible solutions. (more…)
Reconnecting McDowell Partnership Improves Opportunities in West Virginia
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Mar. 4The American Federation of Teachers is making progress, one year into an unprecedented public-private partnership called “Reconnecting McDowell,” created to improve and expand the struggling educational, economic, healthcare, and social services opportunities in McDowell County, an economically depressed West Virginia county in isolated, mountainous Appalachia. (more…)
Children and Families Lose Big With Sequester
Posted by Jacquelyn Lendsey on Feb. 27The March 1 deadline for sequester will bring across-the-board spending cuts over the next 10 years to achieve the $1.2 trillion reduction to the federal budget mandated by Congress. These automatic, but equal, cuts to defense and non-defense spending will have a direct impact on children and their families that will reduce and, in some cases, eliminate vital services. (more…)
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