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Eviction Mediation Can Help Prevent Homelessness
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") recently announced it was ending its eviction moratorium and has now extended it to October 3 for counties with "substantial and high levels" of coronavirus transmission. Whether now or in the future, many people...
Support for Utah Bill HB 68: Full Disclosure for Tenants
Utah bill HB 68 (Rental Expenses Disclosure Requirements) would make the rental process for tenants more fair and...
Support for Utah Bill SB 165: Automatic Removal from the Sex Offender Registry
We support SB 165, which would automatically remove from the sex and kidnap offender registry former prisoners who...
Support for Utah Bill SB 50: Giving Youth Who Commit Crimes a Second Chance
We support Utah Bill S.B. 50, which makes sure that people who commit crimes in their youth are treated proportionally...
Testimony: Wealth and Poverty in America, Jon S. Pierpont, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, October 29, 2015
Families experiencing intergenerational poverty have more sporadic employment, earn wages insufficient to meet basic needs of their children, lack access to healthcare, and lag significantly behind...
Thesis: Poverty Cycles in Utah: How teen mothers hurt themselves, their children and society
By reducing the number of adolescents who become pregnant, health care, welfare, and education costs would decrease while tax revenue and education completion rates would increase. Read more.
Study: Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality, Young Lives
The results suggest that reductions in poverty and in inequality in the parents’ generation reduce poverty and inequality in the children’s generation some, but not much. Read more.
Conservatives Must Lead the Fight for Welfare Reform
Paul Mero, president and CEO of Next Generation Freedom Fund, wrote an op-ed in the Deseret News explaining that trusted conservatives in Utah need to seek to influence debate in providing a new...
