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.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
CHN’s comments in opposition to HUD’s “mixed-status” housing proposal
July 10, 2019
The Coalition on Human Needs is particularly concerned about the very harmful impact if this proposed rule is adopted because we have for decades tracked the individual, family, and societal costs of poverty and homelessness or unstable housing. These costs affect health, child development and education, and economic success across generations. Our members understand that children are among the most vulnerable to poverty and housing instability, and also have seen the positive impact of stable, subsidized housing on the health and future success of children.
CHN calls on Congress to approve funding and to demand better living conditions for immigrants in custody
June 26, 2019
In a letter to Congress, CHN conveys our dismay over the disgraceful failure of the Trump Administration to safeguard the immigrant children and adults in its care, and to urge in the strongest possible terms that the border supplemental funding legislation it enacts will provide both the resources needed to provide for humane treatment and rigorous restrictions and oversight by Congress to prevent the misuse of the funds Congress appropriates.
ITEP: How Expanding the EITC and Child Tax Credit Would Help Low- and Middle-Income Families
June 20, 2019
Today the House Ways and Means Committee is marking up the Economic Mobility Act of 2019, a bill introduced by Chairman Richard Neal to expand some key tax credits to help low- and moderate-income people and families. New data generated with the ITEP microsimulation tax model show how adults and children would benefit nationally and in each state. One provision would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for adults without children living with them. The EITC is supposed to ensure that working people do not live in poverty, but under current law, the maximum EITC for childless adults is just a little more than $500. Low-income childless adults are the only people who can be taxed further into poverty under current law.
