Publications and Analyses
Original reports, analyses, and publications from CHN and our partners raise awareness of human needs issues and inform the public and key decision-makers.
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.
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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
CHN: The Urgent Need to Rebuild: Cuts in Two-Thirds of Human Needs Programs Must Be Reversed
May 11, 2022
For years, annual funding levels for education, public health and nutrition, affordable housing, mental health and substance use treatment, child care, home heating aid, and many other services have not kept pace with need. Out of 186 programs tracked by the Coalition on Human Needs, nearly two-thirds (118) had less funding in FY 2022 than in FY 2010, taking inflation into account. Nearly one-third (58) had shrunk by 20 percent or more.
