Below you can find resources on the topic areas covered by the Voice of the Poor Committee.
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Coalition Letters
RESTORE ACT
Size: 210.82 KBHits: 185Date added: 06-09-2023Date modified: 06-23-2023Catholic Coalition Letter on Disaster Aid (Dec. 2024)
Size: 136.83 KBHits: 14Date added: 12-11-2024Date modified: 12-11-2024Circle of Protection Letter on SNAP, WIC, and CTC
Size: 122.23 KBHits: 104Date added: 06-18-2024Date modified: 06-18-2024Joint Letter Supporting S. 3910 - “Yes, In God’s Backyard Act”
Size: 198.12 KBHits: 181Date added: 07-12-2024Date modified: 07-12-2024Joint Letter on FY 25 Agriculture Appropriations – Senate
Size: 201.28 KBHits: 46Date added: 06-11-2024Date modified: 06-11-2024Joint Letter on FY 25 Agriculture Appropriations – House
Size: 201.35 KBHits: 82Date added: 06-11-2024Date modified: 06-11-2024Catholic Coalition Responds to House and Senate Farm Bills (May 2024)
Size: 399.43 KBHits: 86Date added: 05-23-2024Date modified: 05-23-2024Circle of Protection Child Tax Credit Letter (April 2024)
Size: 98.25 KBHits: 96Date added: 04-23-2024Date modified: 04-23-2024Circle of Protection Letter – Child Tax Credit (October 2024)
Size: 191.01 KBHits: 38Date added: 10-22-2024Date modified: 10-22-2024Circle of Protection Letter on FY 24 Appropriations
Size: 116.66 KBHits: 71Date added: 01-17-2024Date modified: 01-17-2024Circle Letter on Poverty Priorities
Size: 178.72 KBHits: 115Date added: 11-07-2023Date modified: 11-07-2023Circle Letter on Poverty and Hunger
Size: 176.44 KBHits: 96Date added: 09-14-2023Date modified: 09-14-2023Circle of Protection Child Tax Credit Letter (Dec. 2022)
Size: 554.54 KBHits: 85Date added: 05-15-2023Date modified: 05-15-2023Catholic Coalition Farm Bill Principles Letter (April 2023)
Size: 267.74 KBHits: 101Date added: 05-15-2023Date modified: 05-15-2023COVID-19
Our COVID-19 Response
Size: N/AHits: 446Date added: 07-27-2021Date modified: 07-30-2021Webinar: Poverty in the Pandemic: What’s in the American Rescue Plan Act for Neighbors in Need?
Size: 194.04 KBHits: 341Date added: 07-27-2021Date modified: 07-30-2021Letter to President and Congressional leaders supporting COVID-19 relief legislation, September 2020
Size: 323.17 KBHits: 341Date added: 07-27-2021Date modified: 07-30-2021Criminal Justice
Title Description Size Date modified Download Restorative Justice 69.00 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Webinar: The Immersion Program: Serving Returning Citizens and Reforming the Criminal Justice System 194.50 KB 08-18-2021 Link Sign-On Letter: Joint letter with USCCB & CCUSA supporting FIRST STEP Act, November 20, 2018 56.37 KB 07-30-2021 Link Climate and Environment
Title Description Size Date modified Download Environment and Climate Change (April 2018) 194.60 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Environmental Stewardship FAQ 265.18 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Webinar: Environmental Position Statement N/A 08-18-2021 Link Health Care
Health Care for the Poor (February 2004)
Version:Size: 224.10 KBHits: 319Date added: 07-27-2021Date modified: 04-27-2022Housing and Homelessness
Title Description Size Date modified Download Affordable Housing (July 2002) 43.47 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Homelessness (August 2007) 71.63 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Housing Task Force N/A 08-18-2021 Link Webinar: Housing and Homelessness in the Pandemic 68.90 KB 08-18-2021 Link Human Trafficking
Hunger and Nutrition
Hunger and Food Insecurity (January 2022)
Version:Size: 237.03 KBHits: 609Date added: 07-27-2021Date modified: 05-11-2022Circle of Protection Farm Bill Principles Letter
Version:Size: 267.74 KBHits: 1043Date added: 04-27-2023Date modified: 04-28-2023Submitted Regulatory Comments
Immigration
Title Description Size Date modified Download Immigration (April 2016) 452.91 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview SVDP comment public charge rule FINAL 205.61 KB 07-30-2021 DownloadPreview Jobs/Employment/Wages
Title Description Size Date modified Download Fair Wages (September 2005) 69.02 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Self-Sufficient Wages 234.06 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Self-Sufficient Wages FAQ 368.91 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Webinar: Work, Wages, and Pathways Out of Poverty 194.04 KB 08-18-2021 Link Payday Lending
Title Description Size Date modified Download Predatory Lending (April 2007) 74.38 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Webinar: Combating Predatory Lending N/A 08-18-2021 Link Webinar: Payday Lending N/A 08-18-2021 Link Webinar: Predatory Lending N/A 08-18-2021 Link Sign-On Letter: Response to Proposed Regulation to Combat Predatory Payday Lending 215.68 KB 08-18-2021 Link Poverty and Social Welfare
Title Description Size Date modified Download Circle of Protection 91.05 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Education (April 2010) 80.97 KB 04-27-2022 DownloadPreview Webinar: The Benefits Cliff: Helping Friends in Need Answer Difficult Questions and Build Security 976.17 KB 05-16-2023 DownloadPreview SVdP USA Infrastructure and Budget to Congress 9.21.2021 313.88 KB 09-21-2021 DownloadPreview Webinar: A Vincentian Look at Fratelli Tutti: Call to Fraternity and Social Friendship 194.40 KB 08-18-2021 Link Webinar: Systemic Change and Mentoring 192.58 KB 10-19-2021 Link Sign-On Letters
Title Description Size Date modified Download Circle of Protection Coalition letter to Congress on antipoverty provisions of infrastructure package, July 2021 167.40 KB 07-30-2021 Link Circle of Protection letter to President and Congress on antipoverty provisions of Build Back Better plan, May 2021 174.22 KB 07-30-2021 Link Submitted Regulatory Comments
Title Description Size Date modified Download Comment to the Office of Management and Budget regarding proposed changes to the way poverty is calculated, July 2019 484.56 KB 07-30-2021 Link Voting and Civic Participation
Title Description Size Date modified Download Circle of Protection 91.05 KB 08-18-2021 DownloadPreview Webinar: Civility in a Time of Political Strife 193.43 KB 07-30-2021 Link Webinar: Being “A Voice for the Voiceless”: Our Vincentian Calling 193.57 KB 07-30-2021 Link Webinar: Poverty in America and Our Communities: Using Census Data to Serve and Advocate More Effectively 194.54 KB 08-18-2021 Link