On September 17, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a rescheduled mark-up of the “Stop Sanctuary Cities Act” (S.1814). Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator David Vitter (R-…
House Committee on Financial Services Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) hosted a congressional briefing on the state of homelessness in America, where speakers, including actor and activist Richard…
On September 10, Representative Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) introduced the “Together We Care Act of 2015.” The bill would establish a demonstration program to provide home health care service training to…
The Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM), an NLIHC State Coalition Partner, and the Michigan League for Public Policy are coordinating advocacy efforts to save the Michigan…
Source: National Employment Law Project. (2015). Occupational Wage Declines Since the Great Recession: Low-Wage Occupations See Largest Real Wage Declines. Retrieved from http://bit…
A report from the National Employment Law Project, Occupational Wage Declines Since the Great Recession, finds that real median wages across almost 800 occupations dropped by an average of 4.0% from…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University now provides an interactive map and graph of cost burdens and high cost burden metro areas across the U.S. at http://bit.ly/1KcZjeN.…
The Washington DC NeighborWorks Training Institute will take place December 7-11, 2015, and will feature a broad array of professional development courses. Participants can choose from over 100 high-…
NLIHC launched its second annual Membership Month at the beginning of September. We welcome our new members and thank those who recently rejoined. Your membership and support is absolutely critical…
Josephine Clarke joined NLIHC as Executive Assistant on September 11. Josephine has worked for the last nine years as the assistant to the Campus Dean at Strayer University in Rockville, MD. While at…
Four new interns have joined the NLIHC team. Alex Williams will be at NLIHC for two semesters completing her Masters in Social Work practicum. She is currently pursuing her MSW with a concentration…
