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“Monday is my 34th birthday. I probably won’t have many more.”
Health care advocates rallied at the U.S. Capitol Monday, part of a last-minute effort to defeat massive tax cuts – tax cuts that pose a potentially devastating threat to Medicaid, Medicare and other...
View ArticleTax Bill Grinch steals Christmas — and threatens America’s lower- and...
Editor’s note: Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of the Coalition on Human Needs, issued the following statement Tuesday, Dec. 19 in response to the tax bill passed today by the House and up for a...
View ArticleCuts by any other name
Over the holidays, Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, had an interesting op-ed published in the Washington Post. His New Year’s resolution to journalists and...
View ArticleCHN: Select Departmental FY19 Budget Requests
Select Departmental Budget Requests The Coalition on Human Needs compiled information from President Trump’s FY19 budget request for select government departments that most directly impact low-income...
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Congress puts families first
Editor’s note: The Coalition on Human Needs is participating in the Children’s Blog Carnival, hosted and sponsored by the Children’s Leadership Council. Today’s post is authored by Donna Butts,...
View ArticleTrump’s immigration policies threaten children and our collective future
Editor’s note: The Coalition on Human Needs is participating in the Children’s Blog Carnival, hosted and sponsored by the Children’s Leadership Council. Today’s post is authored by the Center for Law...
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Fact of the Week: Nearly 70 percent of critical human needs programs have...
Afterschool programs for children cut by nearly 10 percent. Juvenile justice programs cut by more than 40 percent. Housing for the elderly cut by 28 percent; housing for people with disabilities cut by...
View ArticleCHN urges Congress to reject Trump cuts that undermine children’s health...
Editor’s note: Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of the Coalition on Human Needs, issued the following statement Tuesday, May 8 in response to the Trump Administration’s rescissions package: “The...
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Fact of the Week: Three-Quarters of states still have higher levels of need...
Residents in 37 states and the District of Columbia were still experiencing higher levels of need in 2017 than they were in 2007, before the Great Recession. This is one of the findings in the latest...
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Why We Do the Work We Do Together
The CHN office is always a flurry of activity. With a small staff and so much to do to protect and expand basic needs programs that help our low-income neighbors, there’s no time to sit still. This...
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