Best of 2025, Part 2: Statehouses, Safe Houses, and Single Moms on the Frontlines of Poverty and Policy

In this year-end special of Add Passion and Stir , host Debbie Shore revisits 2025 conversations colliding with today's headlines: Trump administration's $10B freeze on childcare/social welfare funds, ICE raids terrorizing families, and KPMG's forecast of stagnant financial mobility trapping single moms. Maine Governor Janet Mills sued over school lunch threats and won universal free meals. DC restaurateurs Peter Schechter and Eric Bruner-Yang turned kitchens into safe houses amid intense ICE raids. Chastity Lord and Elaine Waxman reveal two-generation models that deliver a "three-X multiplier" for single moms, kids, and communities. Essential listening on food justice, child poverty, and state-level solutions.​ See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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Best of 2025, Part 2: Statehouses, Safe Houses, and Single Moms on the Frontlines of Poverty and Policy is an episode from Add Passion and Stir by District Productive.

This episode is 00:19:40 long.

This episode was published on Jan 15, 2026.

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