Last week both the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees marked up their version of the Farm Bill and voted for them. Each made devastating cuts to programs for children's nutrition, specifically to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), where 49% of participants are children.
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Negotiations are moving slowly on means to avert Sequestration (known as the Fiscal Cliff).
Perhaps it is fitting that at this time of year, as we prepare again to commemorate the birth of Jesus, that our legislators are having deep conversations about taxes, revenues and spending.
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, is proud to announce that Sister Simone Campbell, our Executive Director, has been named a recipient of the “2012 Defender of Democracy Award” by the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), an international organization of legislators from 120 parliaments.
Sr. Simone Campbell released a statement regarding President Obama's Friday meeting with civic and faith leaders about ongoing fiscal negotiation.
You can listen to a recording of the Nov. 7 conference call with NETWORK staff and members.
"The right to organize, to bargain, to join together to improve wages and working conditions is a fundamental principle of Catholic social teaching."
TODAY, November 1: Sister Simone Campbell of NETWORK joins Iowa Nuns and community leaders in call for faithful budget.
Please learn as much as possible about where the candidates stand on important issues, and be sure to vote. This election is critical!
Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORK Executive Director and Leader of Nuns on the Bus, today reissued NETWORK’s invitation to Congressman Paul Ryan to join her and other Catholic Sisters at a Catholic facility serving people in need.
In the presidential debate last Wednesday there was absolutely zero conversation about U.S. immigration policy.
NETWORK—a Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace—educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.
NETWORK—un líder Católico en el movimiento global para la justicia y paz—educa, organiza, y cabildea para la transformación económica y social.
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