Low-income households

December 11, 2007 -- LANSING - Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, along with a bipartisan group of other Midwestern governors, today sent a letter urging Congress to increase federal funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), similar to what was appropriated in 2006.    » read more »

December 10, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) today wrote to President Bush demanding that he release emergency funding for local food banks and other essential food programs which are facing a critical shortage of supplies this winter.    » read more »

December 10, 2007 -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer today announced that more than $3 million in energy conservation grants will go to community organizations for weatherization projects that will reduce heating costs for more than 1,400 families across New York.    » read more »

December 7, 2007 -- CONCORD - New Hampshire Governor John Lynch today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urging the federal government to immediately release $3.8 million of New Hampshire’s allocation for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).    » read more »

A New Service Learning Program To Combat Teen Pregnancy And Increase Civic Engagement

December 6, 2007 -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Youth and Community Development Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav today announced the launch of Teen ACTION (Achieving Change Together In Our Neighborhoods), a new Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) initiative aimed at reducing rates of teen pregnancy and other high-risk behavior among the City's low-income young adults.    » read more »

December 5, 2007 -- BOSTON - Senators John Kerry and Edward Kennedy, along with 22 of their colleagues, co-sponsored the Keep Americans Warm Act of 2007, a bill to provide an additional $1 billion in emergency Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding. This emergency assistance would be in addition to the overall Fiscal Year 2008 LIHEAP funding.    » read more »

12/05/2007 -- As Vermont dug out from the season’s first major winter snow storm and temperatures plunged below freezing, emergency legislation to provide $1 billion for home heating assistance was introduced today in the Senate by Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and in the House of Representatives by Congressman Peter Welch.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, December 4 – As Vermont dug out from the season’s first major winter snow storm and temperatures plunged below freezing, emergency legislation to provide $1 billion for home heating assistance was introduced today in the Senate by Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and in the House of Representatives by Congressman Peter Welch.    » read more »

Clinton Urges Action to Assist Low-Income Households in Coming Winter Months as Energy Prices Reach Record Highs

December 4, 2007 -- Washington, DC - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she has joined a bipartisan coalition of Senators in calling on the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Related Appropriations Subcommittee to include an additional $1 billion in emergency funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).    » read more »

Legislation would help families battle soaring home heating costs

December 4, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today joined a bipartisan group of senators to introduce the Keep Americans Warm Act of 2007, sponsored by Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT).    » read more »

Governor's Plan Offers State Help and Makes Up for Washington’s Failure To Act

December 3, 2007 -- ST. LOUIS – Cold temperatures are threatening Missourians with very low incomes and Washington has failed to pass a budget for this an important program to help them. Today Gov. Matt Blunt announced he is stepping in with two initiatives to help vulnerable Missourians stay warm this winter.    » read more »

Also Urges Congress to Investigate Fuel Prices

November 27, 2007 -- Montpelier, Vt. – Vermont Governor Jim Douglas today praised Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal to boost federal emergency home heating assistance by $1 billion and the Governor also called on the Congress to investigate rising fuel prices.    » read more »

Unprecedented Decline in Available Food, State Doubles Previous Amount of Funding for Hunger Prevention Program

November 21, 2007 -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer visited the Bowery Mission in New York City today to announce an additional $5 million will be available to help food pantries and soup kitchens, who are facing a decrease in federal funding and private donations, restock their shelves during this holiday season.    » read more »

Critical Increases in Nutrition Assistance Languish in Senate as Iowa Food Insecurity Rate More Than 11 Percent

November 20, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the Thanksgiving holiday just days away, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today said that President Bush should follow up on his visit to a Virginia food bank this week and intervene to end obstruction of the new farm bill by members of his own party. The new legislation contains billions of dollars in critically-needed new food assistance for low-income families in Iowa and across the nation.    » read more »

November 20, 2007 -- Washington, D.C.-Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry, along with thirty of their Senate colleagues from both parties, today called on President Bush release $20 million in contingency Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds and to fully support at least $2.411 billion for the program, the amount which Congress recently approved and the President vetoed.    » read more »