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 Urges Swift Enactment of COVID-19 relief package, calling it “long overdue”
December 21, 2020

CHN Executive Director issued the following statement on Monday, Dec. 21, in response to the bipartisan COVID-19 relief package.

CHN urges Senate to pass COVID-19 relief package without delay
December 4, 2020

The Coalition on Human Needs on Thursday, Dec. 2 urged members of Congress to pass a COVID-19 relief package without delay. Without action, millions of Americans will lose unemployment benefits by Dec. 26, and millions more will lose protection from eviction by year's end.

CHN opposes confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in letter to U.S. Senators
October 13, 2020

On Monday, October 12, 2020, CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein called upon the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.