Unlike SNAP, WIC has a smaller budget, and less of a spotlight. Now, Congress and the USDA are working to address food insecurity in families head-on by investing in and modernizing the program.

Wednesday, April 14 is National Call-In Day to urge Congress to include in the American Jobs Plan a major expansion of rental assistance; $70 billion to repair public housing; and an investment of $40 billion in the national Housing Trust Fund to build and preserve affordable housing.

​On March 9, 2021, in response to the impending trial of Derek Chauvin, the Healing Our City Virtual Prayer Tent was launched. The daily prayer tent is expansive and inclusive, including people of all faiths, denominations, races, and orientations.

The House has passed the bipartisan Equality Act (H.R. 5), a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes alongside race, gender, religion, national origin, age, and disability. Now we need to urge the Senate to introduce and pass an amended version of this legislation too.

President Biden’s Covid-19 relief package is poised to bring a historic reduction in poverty rates, with nonmetro counties among the biggest beneficiaries.

LAMA and Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest are teaming up on behalf of refugees to support H.R.2237 aka The GRACE Act. Join the appeal by participating in the ACT ON GRACE campaign.

The Children’s Defense Fund just released the latest version of their annual State of America’s Children report. The report compiles the latest data on a wide range of issues impacting children and highlights the ways in which COVID-19 has exacerbated these concerns.

An increase in unaccompanied children and asylum-seekers arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico has given rise to claims of a crisis. Individuals, families and children seeking protection are no crisis — the crisis is the circumstances they are fleeing and the moral challenge of safe welcome.

“If you want to get serious about racism as white folks, your theme should not be ‘Who is my neighbor?’ but ‘Who am I?”’

The ELCA social message on Human Rights affirms: In the name of the God who creates every human being out of love, this church teaches human dignity is God’s gift to every person and that the commitment to universal rights protects that dignity. 

As Christians, we are called to seek justice, care for those experiencing hunger and poverty, and embrace our Creator’s vision of hope, love, and peace. We are called to embody it in public as we commit to live in solidarity with those who are made vulnerable by the inequities that drive hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world.

These election bills will receive a final vote in the Arizona Legislature this week. LAMA believe these bills curtail the rights of initiative and referendum and limit access to early voting, both electoral rights that Arizonans have long exercised.

The spot in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed speaks to those who visit.

To encourage the great resource of young adults in advocacy, the ELCA is offering scholarships to Ecumenical Advocacy Days.

After decades of missed opportunities, Congress is on the verge of passing immigration reforms, including a pathway to earn citizenship. Urge a principled approach based on fairness and compassion.

River of Life, the 2021 VBS Study from ELCA World Hunger, will focus on the importance of water, highlighting how ELCA World Hunger is working with our neighbors around the world in projects related to clean water.

SCR1011, the Arizona Senate Concurrent Resolution sponsored by Sen. Griffin (R - Dist 14) being heard today in Natural Resources, Energy & Water urges Congress and the President to act on the crisis at the border.

Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of eight people, including six Asian American women, in Atlanta. Some of these attacks may be classified as hate crimes. But whether they meet that legal definition or not, they all fit a long history of viewing Asian Americans in particular ways that make discrimination and violence against them more likely.