Karen Dolan

1 week ago | ips-dc.org | Karen Dolan |Caleb Crowder

Women and children are under threat in America. Jocelyn Smith of Roswell, New Mexico, knows this too well. “I’m disabled, taking care of my disabled daughter. I work, and I volunteer to help feed and house my community,” she told me. “Yet I need assistance affording meals for my family. Something is broken.”Smith knows, but did you know, that in the United States, nearly 43% of women – and almost half of all children – are poor or low-income?

1 month ago | ips-dc.org | Karen Dolan |Lindsay Koshgarian |Caleb Crowder

Right now, people across the country are demanding that our government puts our communities’ needs before corporate greed. IPS and the Economic Policy Institute proudly provided research support for a timely new report by Repairers of the Breach that spotlights how Trump and the GOP are cutting programs that help poor and low-income Americans to spend more on the war machine, mass deportations, and tax breaks for the wealthy.