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Showing posts with label poverty data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty data. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Poverty Drops in the U.S. But Remains Unconscionable

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The Census Bureau yesterday released its annual report on poverty data, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013 . After four year...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Urge Your Representatives to Pass the Fair Minimum Wage Act

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Many U.S. workers have come to rely on and expect an annual wage increase from their employers. Indeed, the practice of annual cost of ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Response to the Census Bureau's Poverty Data

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Evidence of Continuing Income Inequality: A Response to the Census Bureau’s Poverty Data By J. Herbert Nelson, Director, PC(USA) Office of...
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Office of Public Witness PC(USA)
Washington, DC, United States
The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness is the public policy information and advocacy office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Its task is to advocate, and help the church to advocate, the social witness perspectives and policies of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The church has a long history of applying these biblically and theologically-based insights to issues that affect the public — maintaining a public policy ministry in the nation's capital since 1946. Reformed theology teaches that because a sovereign God is at work in all the world, the church and Christian citizens should be concerned about public policy. In addition, Presbyterian forefather John Calvin wrote, "Civil magistry is a calling not only holy and legitimate, but by far the most sacred and honorable in human life."
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