Action Alerts

By Melissa Orlowski This year I’m working as a para-professional teacher (until I take all my exams). And I am leading a kindergarten class which allows me to assess the preparedness of the children who had pre-k against those that didn’t. It’s not mandatory; pre-k that is. When I was starting primary school in Massachusetts twenty years ago, even kindergarten wasn’t mandatory. I went right into first grade. I don’t remember it much, but my mum says I struggled to read more…

This is not the time to cut SNAP, the food stamp program. 46 million people live in poverty as defined by the Federal government, and 21% of our children live in poverty.

There’s no basic living wage in the United States for unskilled workers who mow our lawns, fix our roads, provide care for elders and children, clean our buildings and hotel rooms and provide fast food and wash the dishes, and take care of many everyday tasks. Instead individuals, businesses and corporations rely on paying low wages and using the income from tax payments to provide subsidies with food stamps, rental vouchers, heath care, childcare and the earned income tax credit etc., etc.