Poverty

“There still is a digital divide, particularly in rural parts of the state, and for lower-income New Yorkers."

“This isn't rocket science. It's public policies that are the biggest lever to lift families out of poverty.”

Despite a legal aid group asking the commonwealth court to grant an injunction, a small cash assistance for the poor has ended, effective Thursday.

Democratic state lawmakers are criticizing the Trump Administration over its proposed plan to restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for certain people.

The effort is part of a New York State plan to reduce poverty

Two advocacy groups are suing Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services over the repeal of a small cash assistance program for poor people who don't qualify for other aid.

"Mr. President you are becoming a partisan hack1 This is your job. Do your job Mr. President. Do your job!"

They are shoehorning a repeal of the General Assistance program into a bill that also includes important money for medical assistance. Their strategy is that Wolf will sign the bill, or let it become law, because he won't want to spike the medical funding.

"We'll begin to reverse the tide of the last 25 years of the landlords having the advantage to having people not be priced out of their homes, pushed out of their homes, threatened out of their homes."

"We would like [Wolf] to send back any budget that eliminates and guts General Assistance...and will cause people to die."