Feature: Letters to Congress

National Group Sign-On Letter Urges Congress to Quickly Enact No Less Than American Rescue Plan
February 5, 2021

On February 4th, over 100 national organizations including the Coalition on Human Needs called on the United States Congress to enact swiftly no less than what is called for in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. Without speedy and comprehensive action, "...families that could have managed will be pushed into poverty and deaths that could have been avoided due to the pandemic will occur."

CHN letter to all U.S. Senators demands COVID-19 relief
September 25, 2020

CHN on Friday, Sept. 25 sent a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators demanding COVID-19 relief. It reads in part, "The pandemic has imperiled your constituents’ economic well-being and their health. COVID-19 cases are again rising, and as we enter the colder months, the threat will increase. The moratorium on evictions expires at the end of the year. If you leave now without acting, millions of people, unable to come up with one or more months of unpaid rent, will face eviction."

CHN’s letter to all members of the U.S. Senate urging Senators to extend U.S. Census reporting deadlines
August 10, 2020

CHN's letter to all members of the U.S. Senate urging Senators to extend statutory reporting deadlines for apportionment and redistricting data for the 2020 Census to April 30, 2021, extend the deadline to transmit state population totals to that date, prohibit the Bureau and the President from sending the relevant data to the Congress in advance of those deadlines, and to allocate $400 million to address Census Bureau operational challenges.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

CHN letter to Congress: Constituents demand help in reconciliation bill
July 11, 2022

The Coalition on Human Needs on Monday, July 11, 2022 delivered a letter to every member of Congress demanding that Senators and House members include in reconciliation legislation help for families struggling to make ends meet.

Disarm hatred.
May 18, 2022

At the Tops market in Buffalo, New York on May 14, people were doing ordinary things.  Picking up groceries after visiting a husband in a nursing home; buying a birthday cake for a son.  We don’t often think about the ordinary people around us, about how they enrich the life of our communities.  But in that viciously cruel moment at the Tops market, ten important lives were ended – people whose days were filled with support for their families and communities.   

CHN letter to Congress urges increase in non-defense discretionary FY23 spending
May 18, 2022

CHN May 16 letter to Congress urges increase in non-defense discretionary FY23 spending