This Week @ The Homeless Coalition

SNAP Fact:
“Low-wage workers are less likely to have access to unemployment insurance. One study found that though low-wage workers are over twice as likely as other workers to be unemployed, they are less than half as likely to be covered by unemployment insurance.” (This means they likely need SNAP to survive.)

“Workers turn to SNAP to supplement low and fluctuating pay and to help them get by during spells of unemployment.”

(Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org)

SNAP Action:
Take time to call 10 of your friends over the weekend to encourage them to vote. Share with them what you found out about how policymakers have voted on issues such as SNAP, health care and affordable housing programs. Encourage your friends to be educated voters. Some (many) TV campaign ads frame words in a manner to confuse voters. Investigate how politicians really voted at Project VoteSmart www.votesmart.org

Your phone calls just might be the inspiration your friends need to be voters!

Jamie graduated from The Ohio State University with a BSSW in social work and a BA in Spanish. She received her law degree from the University of Cincinnati, College of Law where she was the Immigration and Nationality Law Review Editor-in-Chief. While in law school, she clerked at the Children's Law Center and was a graduate fellow at Legal Aid. A Cincinnati native, she now lives in Butler County with her husband and two children.