DAI Fights for Worker Protections for Poultry Plant in Irving

[Excerpts] ...workers who labor shoulder to shoulder at the plant and others fear the contagion has spread to more people in the Dallas area. Sick workers who do not get...

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DAI, Church Support Food Workers after Covid-19 Outbreak in Irving Poultry Plant

[Excerpt] At St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Irving, Rev. Ernesto Esqueda said the church will support the workers with food and other needs during the pandemic. “We are all walking...

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DAI Leverages $10 Million in County Coronavirus Relief for Housing Assistance and Small Business Aid

[Translated excerpt below] "It's a good start", said Josephine López Paul, organizer with Dallas Area Interfaith, a nonprofit organization that helped create the County housing assistance program. "It's a down...

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DAI Leverages $13.7 Million In Local Housing Relief, Presses for More in Face of Overwhelming Demand

After DAI organized judicatory leaders and clergy from every major religion in Dallas, and the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas, to testify in support of short-term supports for low-income renters...

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DAI, With Clergy, Mobilize Food Relief and More in Face of COVID-19 Crisis

[Excerpt] On a recent Saturday, the priest passed out bags of eggs, beans, rice, tomatoes and chicken and sprinted like a grocery store clerk to families waiting in a long...

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DAI Congregations Keep Parishioners Connected

[Excerpts] “It’s a special time with everything that’s happening because of the pandemic, but we have to think of our homes as having converted into our church where the word...

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DAI Zeroes In On Economic Impact of COVID-19 in North Texas

[Excerpt] While health and government officials work to manage the outbreak, families are struggling to pay bills and buy groceries. Josephine Lopez Paul, the lead organizer for the Dallas Area...

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DAI, IAF Sharpen Focus on Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Immigrants

After the Covid-19 pandemic precipitated an economic crisis of historic proportions, the Industrial Areas Foundation launched a campaign calling on Congress to provide direct monthly aid for the duration of the...

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Parish IDs Now Accepted at Dallas County Mobile Testing Units

Parish identification cards, an IAF immigration strategy developed in collaboration with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, are now accepted at Dallas County Covid-19 mobile testing units.   [Photo Credit: Smiley N....

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DAI & Texas IAF Successfully Push for Utility Relief

“With so much anxiety in the air over the coronavirus, these measures will free many of our brothers and sisters from additional anxieties over the basic necessities of life.” --...

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