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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NETWORK’s issue agenda for the 111th Congress is based on the Platform for the Common Good. In 2008, we invited groups around the country to identify issues that were important to them. We received responses from thousands of people. Their concerns became the platform, which was discussed and ratified at the 2008 Convention for the Common Good, attended by 800 delegates from many Catholic social justice groups.
In line with our mission as a Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace, NETWORK’s position on each of these issue areas is informed by the principles of Catholic Social Teaching and the lived experience of real people. We especially focus on people struggling at the economic margins and see poverty alleviation as a major goal.
Economic Justice
Immigration Reform
Peacemaking
Healthcare Access
Ecology
Additional IssuesNETWORK—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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