http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/rac-weighs-in-on-stimulus/ Just moments after we hit the "submit" button on the last post noting the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s busy week, another e-mail from the group landed in the inbox. This one detailed a letter to Congress frrom RAC director and counsel Rabbi David Saperstein, urging passage of the economic stimulus package while asking for a couple "improvments." The missive suggest an increase in the "pool of affordable housing," specifically calling for investments in the National Housing Trust Fund and the provision of housing vouchers "to help stabilize the lives of individuals who will be unable to maintain jobs without an affordable place to call home." The RAC also requests that pervasively sectarian entities receiving taxpayer dollars from the Compassion Capital Fund for faith-based and community organizations be required to set up affiliated 501c3 organizations, which it says would obviate government regulation and monitoring of houses of worship. Here’s the full letter: en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-01-28T;02:13:00-05:00