President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night: low-key compared to other addresses, determined and occasionally defiant. He touched on many of the priorities being worked on by the Alliance for a Just Society this year, including mentioning that nine million Americans have signed up for private health insurance orContinue reading “State of the Union Has the Right Themes, Action Must Follow”
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Families and Our Future Sinking in a Sea of Student Debt
This is the first in a three-part series by the Alliance for a Just Society, looking at the high cost of student debt for our country and for our future. Young college graduates are putting their futures on hold as they struggle under the burden of high student debt – and a weak economic recoveryContinue reading “Families and Our Future Sinking in a Sea of Student Debt”
Butte Jury Holds Bankers Accountable With $52 Million Verdict
By Sheena Rice Montana Organizing Project It’s no longer shocking to read news articles about the scandalous behavior of big banks. Readers roll their eyes when they see JPMorgan’s CEO being awarded a total pay of $20 million the same year the bank made repeated headlines for being fined millions of dollars and incurring lossesContinue reading “Butte Jury Holds Bankers Accountable With $52 Million Verdict”
Alliance On Stage With Pelosi and Raise the Wage
The work of Alliance for a Just Society was very much in evidence earlier this month when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Labor Secretary Tom Perez held a press conference calling for passage of legislation to raise the federal minimum wage. The legislation, endorsed by the Alliance, would bring the hourly minimum wage upContinue reading “Alliance On Stage With Pelosi and Raise the Wage”
Economic Equality for All, the Unfinished Dream
The young minister paused and looked out at the crowd of thousands, then looked back at his notes stacked neatly before him on the podium. He was searching for just the right words – words that would speak to the indignity of poverty and racial inequality; words that would inspire hope in an hour ofContinue reading “Economic Equality for All, the Unfinished Dream”
Living Wage: A New Battle in the War on Poverty
Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson announced a War on Poverty in America, more than 46.5 million people in our country, about one out of every seven, still struggle to get enough to eat or have a place to live. The U.S. Census Bureau shows that for people of color, the poverty rate is evenContinue reading “Living Wage: A New Battle in the War on Poverty”
2013 Reports
2013 Reports America’s Changing Economy 2013 Wage and Job Gap Study http://thejobgap.org/national-report/ Reports by state: Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New York City, Oregon, Virginia, Washington Communities Under Attack: Pushing Back Against the Criminalization of Everyday Life. Alliance.for_.a.Just_.Society_Pushing-Back_FINAL.pdf Wasted Wealth – Racial Inequity in the Foreclosure Crisis Continue reading “2013 Reports”
King County Living Wage December 2013 report
King.County.WA_2013 wage report
New York Must Do More to Address Health Disparities
Building on New York State’s success in enrolling nearly a million New Yorkers in health insurance, a new report makes recommendations on how to continue improving health care by aggressively addressing health disparities in the coming years. New York State of Health, the new health insurance marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), isContinue reading “New York Must Do More to Address Health Disparities”