Social Security at 90: Three Truths and A Terrible Trumpy Lie About One of America’s Greatest Economic Programs
August 14, 2025
Social Security at 90: Three Truths and A Terrible Trumpy Lie About One of America’s Greatest Economic Programs
August 14, 2025
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When Care Becomes an Immigration Checkpoint, We All Lose
August 15, 2025
Public Comment submitted to HHS
For nearly thirty years, there has been a shared understanding that programs keeping families healthy, safe, and learning should not be turned into tools to police immigration status.
Social Security at 90: Three Truths and A Terrible Trumpy Lie About One of America’s Greatest Economic Programs
August 14, 2025
Blog post by NPWF, a member of CHN
Ninety years ago in a “terrifically hot Washington summer” much like this one, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating programs for unemployment insurance, retirement benefits and more.
Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine
August 8, 2025
For generations, my family has lived in a rural Alabama county with just one community hospital, with 107 beds to service 60,000 people.
Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”
August 5, 2025
Blog post by FamilesUSA, a member of CHN
President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law
How many deaths are acceptable to pay for rich people’s tax breaks?
June 23, 2025
The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill, and now the Senate is taking up its version, which it hopes to pass before leaving for the July 4th recess. Health economists at the University of Pennsylvania have estimated that a bill like the House bill would lead to 51,000 preventable…
Slashing Staff Means Less Help for People
April 1, 2025
The Trump Administration wants you to believe that massive cuts in staffing will have no effect on the services people need. The latest blockbuster announcement came from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who will lay off 10,000 workers, doubling the total terminated, one-quarter of…
Why SNAP Cuts Hurt People and Must Not Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy- Words and Pictures
March 17, 2025
The budget resolution passed by the House of Representatives included instructions to the Agriculture Committee to come up with a plan to cut spending by $230 billion over 10 years. There is no way to do that without taking most or all of this huge figure from the Supplemental Nutrition…
How Much Will We Have to Pay the Ultra-Wealthy?
February 28, 2025
The House of Representatives passed a budget resolution on February 26 that would pay out $4.5 trillion in tax breaks over a decade, with the largest share going to the wealthiest. Who would pay for that? We do – in lost or more expensive health coverage, lost nutrition assistance, higher…
