Essay: If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, asks why destroying enemies is a higher priority than feeding, clothing and teaching children?…
US President Donald Trump’s housing budget leaves poorest out in the cold, advocates say
Thomson Reuters Foundation A decade after the housing bubble burst in the United States, affordable homes are available to as little as 20 per cent of the poorest families that need them in some states, according to a report published by housing advocates on Thursday. That national shortfall, despite showing some recent improvement, is still worse than […]
US religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid
RNS US religious leaders, including some who spoke at President Trump’s inauguration, are calling on Congress to protect foreign aid that helps the needy across the globe. Mr Trump’s 2018 budget proposal calls for $US25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development. That’s a decrease of $US10.1 billion, or […]