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Highest Number on Record of Homeless School Children
According to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education, 1,168,354 homeless students were enrolled during the 2011-2012 school year. 14% of those are children with disabilities. This is...
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WV TANF Misery Index is 160
Legal Momentum just released their newest TANF Misery Index based on 2012 numbers, the latest numbers available. The TANF misery index measures how TANF is performing in alleviating poverty in...
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Single Parents in Numbers
Tired of the continuing dependency of using the myth of the welfare queen by politicians to justify cuts to necessary services? Tired of seeing single parents portrayed as villains and the scourge of...
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Welcome Home: Tent Cities on the Rise
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty recently released report, Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States, documents media reports of homeless encampments in 46 of 50...
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U.S. Treatment of Homeless Persons Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading
On Thursday, March 13, in Geneva Switzerland, the U.N. Human Rights Committee reviewed U.S. compliance with a major human rights treaty, raising concerns of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment for...
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War on Poverty: Child Well-Being 50 Years Later
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty in his State of the Union Address. Fifty years later, how have American children fared? Fair Start: Rich Get Richer While Working Families...
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Eileen DiNino: Sentenced to Death for Being Poor
Eileen DiNino, a 55 year old mother of 7 was found dead in a jail cell in Berks County, PA. Ms. DiNino was serving a 2 day sentence for failure to pay $2,000 in fines for truancy. Did something...
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Huntington Water Event and CAPMA Planning
On Saturday, December 13, Direct Action Welfare Group in conjunction with The Assembly to End Poverty, and the Poverty Working Group of the US Social Forum will host a discussion of the basic human...
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Fining McWalmart: Charging Employers for the Social Costs of Poverty Wages
It is time to push strategies that go beyond the minimum wage and penalize low-wage employers for the harm they do to workers and communities. Minimum wage increases put hard cash in workers' pockets....
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2007 Program Highlights Download the full 2007 Annual Report Poverty Initiative’s Appalachian Immersion Trip In January, DAWG hosted a day of education for students participating in Union Theological...
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2008 Highlights Download the full 2008 Annual Report Appalachian Immersion Train the Trainers Trip DAWG hosted a Train the Trainers Immersion Trip in conjunction with Poverty Initiative at Union...
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2009 Program Highlights Download the full 2009 Annual Report Region 2 One Day Conference In January, DAWG held a a one day training for families in Region 2 at the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment...
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2010 Program Highlights Download the full 2010 Annual Report Mountain Health Choices – WV Medicaid West Virginia was one of the first states to request a waiver under the Deficit Reduction Act to...
View ArticleDAWG Honored as a 2013 Top-Rated Nonprofit
Direct Action Welfare Group announces that it has been honored with a prestigious 2013 Top-Rated Award by GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user reviews about nonprofit organizations. “We are...
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