If tax policy makes your eyes glaze over, help has arrived. Bread policy analyst Rachel Black demystifies the Earned Income Tax Credit -- it’s the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S., and it just happens to be administered through the tax code.
“We have to address the poverty that causes hunger,” Black says. “Tax policies that support families who work are an important way of doing this.”
Keep listening for a legislative update from Bread’s director of government relations, and music from Tiffany Thompson.
Listen in as Bread for the World organizers LaVida Davis, based in Chicago, and Robin Stephenson, in Portland, Oregon, tell us how activists in their neck of the woods are mobilizing to end hunger. “It’s about people power,” says Davis. “It’s about the work of everyday folks.”
Monica Mills, Bread’s director of government relations, updates us on the progress of foreign aid reform on Capitol Hill, and Joy Ike, a Nigerian-born singer-songwriter, gives us music for the journey with her smooth jazz sounds.
Revisit the most popular stories and music of 2009 in the year-end edition of Breadcast.
We feature a story on land ownership with interviews from Nicaragua and Habitat for Humanity and a sit down with former Bread policy analyst, Charles Uphaus (now at USAID).
AND... Music from Kimya Dawson (featured in the film JUNO), The Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, and Palestinian musician Bashir Taha.
