by MCDC | Sep 19, 2013 | Farm Bill, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Virginia
The House SNAP bill is harsh. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates it would deny SNAP to approximately 3.8 million low-income people in 2014 and to an average of nearly 3 million people each year over the coming decade. Those who would be thrown off the...
by MCDC | Sep 19, 2013 | Action Alerts, Minimum Wage, Sequester
The Republican proposal for $40 billion in food stamp cuts over the next 10 years would have horrific effects on millions of people, the Congressional Budget Office confirms: According to the CBO, 1.7 million people would be forced off the rolls in the coming year if...
by MCDC | Aug 19, 2013 | Education, Sequester
Head Start programs across the country eliminated services for 57,000 children in the coming school year to balance budgets diminished by the federal sequester, cutting 1.3 million days from Head Start center calendars and laying off or reducing pay for more than...
by MCDC | Jul 24, 2013 | Citizens United, Civil Rights, Economy, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Farm Bill, Filibuster, Global Warming, Gun Reform, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Racism, Sequester, Social Security, Video, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
The history of America is a history of change. The history of Democrats is the history of change that matters for America. The reason we won in 2012 was because supporters like you were the most engaged in political history. As we move on to the elections to come, we...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | Farm Bill, Sequester, Video
Last night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert congratulated the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for being able to pass the Farm Bill. When the House GOP caucus found that they couldn’t compromise on the subject of food stamps, they just...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | News, Sequester
Mapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing (via Moyers & Company) In April, Doug Rice, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, released a paper that described some of the ways people would be affected by sequestration cuts to...
