Plan to expand child tax credit offers hope, along with direct payments
Lisa Backus, Conn. Health I-Team Writer
March 3, 2021
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Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
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Chinara Johnson is pictured with her children, from left, Zavad Morton, 5, Azania Johnson, 8, and Zakai Morton, 5, near her apartment building in downtown New Haven, Feb. 26, 2021.Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
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When her car started making a noise more than a year ago, Chinara Johnson parked the vehicle and hasn’t used it since.
Renters can’t stay and they can’t go
“We didn t see it coming. Now, we have three weeks and we have no idea what to do,” said Nadia Guardado of Irving.
Guardado and her husband, David Delacruz, are one of the North Texas families with nowhere to go when their lease ends at the end of the month.
The couple, who work in the music industry, saw their work dry up nearly overnight last March. Guardado said her boss received a PPP loan that kept her working for a couple of months, but she’s back on furlough. The couple said they got by on savings, unemployment benefits and credit cards until falling behind on rent in September.
April 5, 2021
The legislation that the House Financial Services Committee will consider this week to meet its reconciliation instructions under the House budget resolution includes critical housing assistance for millions of people who are struggling to pay their rent and avoid eviction, as well as badly needed resources to help communities address homelessness during the pandemic. The committee should quickly approve these measures, and the full House and Senate should enact them as part of the broader COVID-19 relief package that Congress will consider in coming weeks. Congress should act quickly to approve the bill’s additional renter relief and resources to enable communities to address homelessness while mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Some 15 million adults 1 in 5 adult renters report that they are not caught up on their rent payments, according to the latest Census Pulse survey.
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Journal entry Dec. 9, 2020
I am yelling on a Zoom call again, this one a virtual meeting of policymakers, community leaders, and technocrats talking about Oregon state policy. As a faculty member at Portland State University, I am often invited to lend expertise to discussions about housing and urban policy, especially racial equity, which usually means sharing research and data. In the ninth month of combination pandemic–economic crisis–racial justice uprising advisory committees, my vocal pitch has become unpleasantly sharp. Today there is a protracted argument among Oregon state leaders about whether to return the legislature for emergency lawmaking before the January session. The Oregon eviction moratori
Hunger is a harsh reality for over 50 million people in the U.S.
As hunger surges in the U.S., close to 50 million Americans are experiencing food insecurity. Millions of families are turning to the Department of Agriculture s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for relief.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge across the nation, food insecurity has become greater as families are forced to rely on unemployment benefits that are running out for many at the end of the year. Added to this state of events is the real numbers behind those who have been impacted the hardest by the downturn in the economy.