Economic Justice - Nebraska Appleseed

Partners for Breakfast In the Classroom helps schools feed students

Economic Justice / By Eric Savaiano / 11/17/2016

Nebraska schools just got a powerful new resource to better offer a healthy school breakfast to the kids who need it most. The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) program recently launched in Nebraska. This consortium of national and local partners, including Nebraska Appleseed, can offer technical assistance as well as financial support to […]

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Standing up for justice

Child Welfare, Economic Justice, Health Care, Immigrants & Communities / By Becky Gould / 11/09/2016

Every day when we come to work at Nebraska Appleseed, we walk through a door that reads “Stand Up For Justice.” It’s our daily reminder that Appleseed was created to fight against the largest, most-formidable forms of systemic injustice in our state. The big problems that keep our poorest neighbors poor and put barriers right

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Improved child care subsidies would strengthen support for working parents

Economic Justice / By Nic Swiercek / 10/28/2016

Across the U.S., low-income families that receive child care subsidies are more likely to be employed, maintain work for longer periods of time and increase their annual earnings and financial resources. It’s a tool that has proven to be an enormous success to help families get ahead. Unfortunately, investment in child care subsidies has been

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Nearly 16 percent of Nebraska families with children face hunger

Economic Justice / By James Goddard / 09/21/2016

This week, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) released its national analysis of food hardship in the U.S. in a report titled “Food Hardship in America: Households with Children Especially Hard Hit.” The analysis, which used research from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being survey, contains both national and state-level data on hunger. According to the survey,

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RELEASE – Census shows over 12 percent of Nebraskans in Poverty

Economic Justice, Press Release / By Nic Swiercek / 09/15/2016

***For Immediate Release*** September 15, 2016 Contact, Jeff Sheldon Communications Director, Nebraska Appleseed Office: (402) 438-8853 Mobile: (402) 840-7289 Email: jsheldon@neappleseed.org New data: Over 12 percent of Nebraskans still live in poverty Census shows high rates of poverty for children, minority populations LINCOLN — The percentage of Nebraskans living in poverty was

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Roots of Appleseed – Eric Hallstrom

Economic Justice / By Nic Swiercek / 09/08/2016

Throughout our 20th Anniversary year in 2016, we are taking a look back at the influential people who helped Nebraska Appleseed grow into the advocacy organization we are today. These “Roots of Appleseed” helped shape our mission of fighting for justice and opportunity for all Nebraskans. Read our prior entries in the Roots of Appleseed

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Appleseed In Action – September 2016

Economic Justice, Immigrants & Communities / By Nic Swiercek / 09/07/2016

News and Events from Nebraska Appleseed – September 2016 Join us for the 2016 Good Apple Awards! Join us on Thursday, October 13, for the 2016 Good Apple Awards to honor folks who have made outstanding contributions to justice and opportunity for all in Nebraska! Livestock Exchange Building Ballroom 4920 S 30th St, Omaha,

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Column: Let’s fix the path out of poverty

Economic Justice / By Nic Swiercek / 08/25/2016

Today’s Omaha World-Herald features a column from our Executive Director Becky Gould on the 20th anniversary of a big change Congress made to the way the U.S. fights poverty for our country’s poorest working families with children. Starting in 1996, the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) restructured one of the country’s most important public assistance programs.

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RELEASE – Schools encouraged to fight classroom hunger with Community Eligibility as students return

Economic Justice / By Nic Swiercek / 08/17/2016

Schools encouraged to fight classroom hunger with Community Eligibility as students return Hunger advocates urge eligible schools to ensure all students are getting healthy meals As Nebraska children head back to school this month, hunger advocates urged eligible Nebraska schools to begin using a proven tool to ensure students are getting the healthy meals they

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Reflections on my year at Appleseed

Economic Justice / By admin / 08/02/2016

My year as a Weitz fellow has been a whirlwind. I didn’t expect Appleseed and Lincoln, NE to find it’s way so close to my heart in the same way that I didn’t expect to feel a “hot breeze” for the first time in my life. Seriously, who knew the wind could blow so hot

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