The Hot Sheet

Everyone knows our Voter Guides rock

Ashley DiParlo at WTAE interviewed our own Carly Dobbins-Bucklad about the League of Young Voters special DIY voter guide website, theballot.org — where you can see all the League non-partisan voter guides (including PA’s!) with information on all of the down-ballot candidates and referendums, as well as upload your own voter guide.

People and organizations can submit guides all over the country, so if you’ve got a friend in another state, pass theballot.org on!

Tags: ballot.org, candidates, DIY, election, election information, League of Young Voters, national, non-partisan, online, Pennsylvania, state representative, vote, voter guides, wtae, Youth

Election Results Party-time!

On a historic day like this one, don’t you want to be with your friends and countrymen?

Tags: e-day, election results, non-partisan, non-profit, Party, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, presidential election, progressive movement, Shadow Lounge, young voters, Youth Vote

PA behind other states in anti-poverty legislation

With the number of U.S. children in poverty increasing, many states are forming commissions and task forces to reduce the ranks of the poor.

Pennsylvania is not among them.

Also, nearly two dozen states - including Delaware and New Jersey - have adopted state income-tax credits, considered by many policymakers to be the single best weapon in the antipoverty arsenal, because the credit rewards working people and raises many families above the poverty line.

Pennsylvania has not created such a credit.

“There’s silence on poverty in Pennsylvania - no serious discussion of poverty reduction at all,” said Sharon Ward, executive director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a research group in Harrisburg.

-The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 15th, 2008, by Alfred Lubano

Please join the PA League to learn about what you can ask your elected officials (at all levels of government) to do about poverty and the economic struggle!

Poverty/Economy Issues Forum
Oct 23rd, 6pm-8pm
Kiva Han (Craig & Forbes, 15213)
presentation followed by panel discussion and Q&A

Tags: advocacy, debate, discussion, economic, economy, elected officials, election, forum, middle class, non-partisan, Non-profit organization, panel, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, poverty, struggle, Upcoming Events, vote, Youth