Poverty Scorecard -how we vote at the Federal level
Click here to review the Shriver Center Scorecard on Poverty. Colorado delegates vote as predicted, but the bill list is quite interesting.
View ArticleState Representative Mark Ferrandino Gives out Urine Cups to Committee
This morning the House Appropriations Committee met to discuss House Bill 12-1046. Needless to say it passed to the Committee as a Whole, but not without members accepting Urine Cups for Drug Testing...
View ArticleApril 5th is Advocacy Day at the Capitol-Join us on at "Po' People's Gathering"
Please join us for Advocacy Day—if he hadn’t been assassinated, Martin Luther King would have held a “Poor People’s March” on April 6, 1968.In 2008 the CBMS Coalition held an Economic Justice rally in...
View ArticleHEALTH CARE REFORM, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT-IT'S ALL IN THERE
REMINDER TO JOIN US FOR THE DAY AT THE CAPITOL TAKE ACTION CAMPAIGNAPRIL 5, 2012 9:00 AM TO 2:30 PM WITH LUNCH AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHCALL OR EMAIL SHAIE WILSON TO RESERVE A SPOT IF YOU HAVEN'T...
View ArticleClick the Link. Play the Game. End Poverty.
Can games change the way we think about the future? From April 3-5, the Rockefeller Foundation will be holding a global public online game, called Catalysts for Change, to identify a thousand new paths...
View ArticleStatistics about marriage ensuring economic success are suspect at best
For low-wage workers, the math of marriage in which one plus one adds up and becomes two incomes may be true only infrequently over time. That creates instability. And while all workers may risk a job...
View ArticleThe rate at which Colorado's kids are slipping into the ranks of the poor has...
Check out the 2012 Kids Count report put out by Colorado Children's Campaign here:http://www.coloradokids.org/data/publications/2012kidscount.html
View ArticleSign the Petition to Stop Criminalizing Homelessness
Show Denver City Council that you don't approve of criminalizing homelessness. Read the article. Sign the Petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/can-denver-afford-to-criminalize-its-homeless
View ArticleHouse Bill 1271: Direct File Signed into Law
Ever wonder what happened to the Direct File bill we got to watch during Advocacy Day? It has just been signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper! What a great success! Today, every child accused of a...
View ArticleAs printed today in the Denver Post
I wrote a letter to the editor based on hours of sitting and listening to the testimony both in favor of and against the ordinance banning street camping. Below is the complete letter that I wrote and...
View ArticleMaking Poverty Manageable
Scott Miller, founder and CEO of Circles Initiative, discusses poverty being too expensive. In this article Scott offers a solution of tackling 10% at a time to make it more manageable....
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The Circles® Campaign is a transformational approach that partners volunteers and community leaders with families wanting to make the journey out of poverty. Operating in communities around the...
View ArticleThe latest from the Reading Room
Last week there was a big dust up over a TED lecture that was slow to be released, not because of any hesitation on part of the man who gave the lecture, but on part of the TED organization. The...
View ArticleThree Ways the Ryan Budget Hits Latinos
Although experts in the field state that the Congressional House budget will be "dead on arrival" in the Senate, we have learned, this year, to keep our voices loud. It may be true that the "whole...
View Article"A person's a person no matter how small."-Dr. Suess
What does it mean to live in the state that has the fastest growing rate of childhood poverty in the country, only to then discover that you live in a wealthy "developed" country that has one of the...
View ArticleReading Room for a shade respite on a hot summer's day
One of the ways we can mitigate poverty is to rethink banking. Advocates for public communal banking assembled in Philadelphia some weeks ago to plan for and promote a more sustainable financing...
View ArticleYouTube Activist Channel
"The Human Rights Channel will be overseen by Witness, an international nonprofit organization that has been using video to help activists document human rights abuses for almost 20 years. They are...
View ArticlePPACA and its Impact on Colorado's Working Poor
The hoopla is over and we're back to the everyday grind. In two days we'll be celebrating another year of independence for the country. This year there may be a pause, a consideration and a moment of...
View ArticleJuly Task Force Meeting-July 18, 2012
July 2012 Meeting of the Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force You, your constituents and your partner organizations are invited to attend the “Creating a New Plan-Strategies for Employment...
View Article2012 Colorado Conference on Poverty - Understanding CSBG and Getting Ahead of...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:00 AM - Friday, August 10, 2012 12:30 PM (Mountain Time) The Colorado Conference on Poverty is coordinated by the Colorado Community Action AssociationPO Box 18321, Denver,...
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