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LAMPa Advocates Work to Restore Vital Housing Program
The Homeowner's Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP) has been preventing foreclosures in Pennsylvania since 1983. Now, faced with an 80% funding cut in the 2011-12 state budget, HEMAP will essentially close down. Read more here. |
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15.9% PA Households Unable to Afford Enough Food in 2009
 For the first time, data on food hardship - the inability to afford enough food - is available for every state, Congressional District and the country's largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Read this blog post from Laura Tobin, Interim Director of the PA Hunger Action Center. |
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New LAMPa Facebook Page
 A new LAMPa Facebook page is replacing the current one. It will offer more options to access news on hunger and justice, discipleship, action opportunities and opinion. Make the switch today. "Like it" here. |
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Conversation with a LAMPa Advocate
 Meet LAMPa Policy Council member Paula Ford from Altoona, representing the Allegheny Synod. In this interview, she talks about her faith, social justice, the daily work of advocacy ministry and the dilemma of a full inbox. Read about her here. |
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Quick Links
 The new Afterschool Meals Guide is a helpful online resource to ensure that more afterschool programs are able to receive federal funding to provide healthy meals to children when the school day ends. The guide walks through the basics of the program, offers tips on how to get it started, and shares strategies on how to make it a success. Check it out here. A new blog post raises questions about what to believe about natural gas drilling and points out resources for moral deliberation on it. In the meantime a Citizens Marcellus Shale Commission will hold hearings across Pennsylvania to seek citizen perspectives on gas drilling and development. Its report will go to Governor Corbett and the legislature. Learn how to submit input in person or in writing here. |
