By Joyce Rothermel As the work for food security at home and abroad continues, this year Bread for the World has two main objectives. The first is the reauthorization of the Global […]
Bread for the World Team Sends Message to Congress
Work Requirements Don’t Work
By Ann Sanders From the White House to the halls of Congress, to Harrisburg and state capitals across the country, many elected officials are promoting work requirements as a way to “move […]
Breakfast and More
By Bette McDevitt The Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF), also known as the Pumphouse Gang, has breakfast every Wednesday at Eat’n Park at the Waterfront. It’s not lost on anyone that this […]
Proposed House Bill Cuts to Snap are Immoral
By Joyce Rothermel The current Farm Bill expires on September 30, 2018. On April 18, 2018 the House Agriculture Committee passed H.R.2, Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, out of committee along […]
O’Hara Rally Calls On Chapel Harbor Luxury Developers To Stop Wage Theft
BY KRYSTLE M. KNIGHT Pittsburgh, PA – At 11:00 AM on Saturday, April 14th, immigrant workers and their supporters held a demonstration outside of Chapel Harbor at the Water in O’Hara Township […]
SW PA Bread Team Lobbies Congressional Members for Improvements in the Domestic and International Food Programs
(Photo Caption: Connor Lamb (Photo by Joyce Rothermel) By Joyce Rothermel Those who gathered for the annual SW PA Bread Team Workshop on April 15 heard from presenters Margaret Tran, regional organizer […]
Are Free Traders Channeling Chicken Little
By Jo Tavener Economic Advisor to the President resigns! A slump in the Dow hits Wall Street. Speaker of the House finally breaks his silence and criticizes Trump’s tariff proposal! All this […]
SW PA Bread for the World Workshop, Sunday, April 15
Picture provided by Joyce Rothermel. By Joyce Rothermel The threats to domestic and international food programs have never been more real. The proposed Trump budget for 2019 would devastate the US food […]
Fed Up P-G Journalists Challenge Paper’s Owner
By Neil Cosgrove It isn’t nostalgic feelings for print journalism that convinces us the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette must hold onto its 150 reporters, photographers, artists, page designers, web and copy editors, and pay […]
Class Cluelessness in America
By Jim McCarville Joan Williams book, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, has a lot to teach about the consequences of a “professional privilege” that disadvantages what she calls the […]
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