News & Opinion
Articles and opinion pieces relating to housing, health care, hunger, jobs and budget priorities.
August 28, 2007
Congress should redirect the $720 million a day the U.S. is spending on the Iraq war to programs that reduce poverty at home, urged the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), responding to Census Bureau data released today.
August 22, 2007
The recent tragedy at the Murray Energy Crandall Canyon mine in Huntington, Utah, prompts a renewed call for the vigorous implementation and enforcement of proposed mining safety measures, urges the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization with a long history of supporting coal miners and communities.
November 10, 2006
The winds of change that blew through the nation’s electorate Tuesday prove that those calling for an end to poverty wages, the scapegoating of immigrants, and the spiraling human and financial costs of the Iraq war are having a major impact.
October 6, 2006
The recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) which will deny union protection to millions of American workers.
August 30, 2006
Responding to the release of new Census Bureau data on U.S. poverty, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international social justice organization, urged Americans to “vote their pocketbooks and values.”
June 21, 2006
If congress deserves a raise, why don't workers? AFSC urges Congress to raise minimum wage and reject estate tax cut.
February 8, 2006
"It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess." --William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, No. 52
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