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The National Housing Conference’s Center for Housing Policy released its 2016 edition of Paycheck to Paycheck. This year’s report focusses on housing affordability for five occupations found among workers at schools in major metropolitan areas nationwide: bus driver, child care (day care) teacher,…
The Brookings Institute presented an early screening of the eight-part documentary series, America Divided, on September 14. Executive producers, Norman Lear and Solly Granatstein, aim to renew the conversation of social and economic inequalities in America. “America Divided” exposes racism in…
An analysis by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, titled Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems, finds the median full-time wage in low paying occupations is not high enough for a worker to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. The median annual…
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act” (S. 3047) that would eliminate nearly all federal affordable housing programs by consolidating them into a state block grant. S. 3047 is the Senate companion to H.R. 5360, introduced by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH…