poverty

Tune in to this week's Noon Edition to hear our guests talk about what their organizations plan to do for the holiday.

Helping Veterans And Families (HVAF) is trying to assist veterans' efforts to find or upgrade their jobs through a program called VetWorks.

Nonprofits are seeing drastic increases of people in need this holiday season.

The adjustment would mean that a family of four getting maximum benefits from SNAP now get $939 a week instead of $835.

Lower-income residents who struggle with utility bills were more likely to take on debt, go without food or medicine, or keep warm by opening their ovens and running space heaters at night — which could be dangerous.

Only 15 percent of child care workers receive health insurance, compared to about half of all workers in other occupations.

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