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Webinar: Our Path Forward – Practical ways to protect people from harm despite threats from the new Administration and Congress
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There are threats that Congress and the new Administration will make things worse for many millions of people, while enriching multi-millionaires and corporations with more tax breaks.
Webinar: Heads Up, Advocates: Budget Rules in the New Congress
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How the New Congress Will Try to Use Budget Rules: A Practical Guide for Advocates to Protect Against Harsh Program Cuts and Bloated Tax Breaks.
What’s Next for Build Back Better?
While it has become increasingly clear there is no longer a path for the House-approved version of Build Back Better, Congress can still reach a reasonable compromise on a scaled-back — but still significant — package that would provide relief to families who need it and invest in our future....
Inflation Truths: Why Build Back Better will help, not hurt
A captioned recording of the webinar is available at this link here. Find the slides at this link here. Rising prices on food and essential goods affect everyone, but they have a disproportionately high impact on people with low incomes. With recent inflation higher than it’s been in decades, some...
Poverty and Hardship – Then and Now
Watch this webinar here. Slides available at this link here. Every year, CHN provides training on what to expect from the Census Bureau’s annual poverty, income, and health insurance data, and how to find and use the data online. But the pandemic and the ensuing economic shutdown has complicated the data...
Making August Recess Count: Building Support for Federal Recovery Legislation to Advance Racial Equity
View a recording of this webinar here. See the slides here. The Biden Administration's proposed American Jobs and American Families Plans provide unprecedented opportunities to address deep-seated racial inequities in education, employment, health, housing, and income. With this Administration and Congress, we have a very real chance of advancing once-in-a-lifetime...
The Urgent Once-in-a-Generation Chance: Getting Congress to Invest in our Children and Youth
View this webinar here. View the slides here. Critical gains for children have been made with the passage of the American Rescue Plan. But Congress needs to make ongoing investments to ensure our children's futures aren't permanently damaged and to shrink the gaps between poor and non-poor children and between...
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Setting the stage for a stronger, more equitable recovery: A conversation with Sharon Parrott, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ new President
Watch the recording of this webinar here. With the passage of the American Rescue Plan, additional much-needed immediate help for COVID-19 pandemic recovery is on the way. Now President Biden is proposing an additional package of investments on infrastructure and human needs. Join CHN and Sharon Parrott, the new president...
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The Next COVID Relief Bill: Why it’s important and what you can do
View a streaming captioned copy of the webinar here. The presenter slide deck is available here. Jared Bernstein, top Biden economist serving on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will join CHN to explain how the COVID relief legislation now moving through Congress is the right size, with the right policies,...