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Hunger Action Testifies to NYC City Council to Increase Welfare Jobs and Emergency Food Funding
On Tax Day, Human Service and Peace Groups Announce Support for NYC Councilmember James' Resolution to Cut Military Budget to Fund City Budget and other Local Needs read >
Hunger Action Submits Petition to Labor Dept, to Raise State Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour read >
Hunger Action Calls for Soda and Stock Transfer Taxes to Help Solve State’s Budget Woes read >
Hunger Action Testifies on behalf of proposed soda tax.
Calls for proceeds to be targeted to anti-obesity and anti-hunger initiatives. read >
Hunger Action Network Renews Call on Lawmakers to Stop Rebating Speculator Tax to Wall Street
Rather than enacting deep cuts to vital programs such as emergency food, Hunger Action is proposing that the State stops rebating to Wall Street traders the $9 billion it collects annually through the stock transfer tax. read >
State Study Finds that a single payer health care system would save $20 billion annually by 2019 The long delayed state study concludes that a single payer Medicare for All type program is the most cost-effective way to provide health care to all New Yorkers read >
Expanding the Local Food Economy in New York State read >
Hunger Action Network Releases Report on a Decade of Welfare Reform
Calls for Jobs to be more Central for Welfare to Work Effort
The report outlines how New York can restructure its state welfare programs to be more effective in helping welfare participants find employment, especially at a time when a majority of participants have multiple barriers to employment. Individuals who have left welfare for work in New York have not escaped poverty due to low wages and limited hours and benefits.
Executive Summary | Press Release
Making New Roads from Welfare to Work: Ramping Up Subsidized Employment
and Community Jobs Programs in New York State
By Andreas Kriefall and Mark Dunlea, Hunger Action Network of NYS
September 2010
Funding Provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Executive Summary
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