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CHN Webinar: Register now. The next COVID relief bill: Top Biden official explains why it’s important and what you can do
CHN Staff,
February 12, 2021
At 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, February 18, CHN will host a webinar, "The next COVID relief bill: Top Biden official explains why it's important and what you can do." Register for this Zoom webinar here.
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship February 12, 2021
CHN Staff,
February 12, 2021
The Saving Children from Poverty edition. This week’s COVID-19 Watch is all about children. President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, now being turned into legislation in the House, includes provisions that taken together, would cut child poverty in half, according to the Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. And just one of those proposals, the increase in the Child Tax Credit, would have the biggest impact, lifting 40 percent of children out of poverty. That means Congress is now working on a plan that will do immense good.
We must address the issue of student debt. How?
Catherine Gorey,
February 8, 2021
The cost of college in the U.S. has increased by more than 25 percent in the past ten years. This astonishing figure has left a mounting $1.6 trillion of student debt that affects more than 45 million Americans. This number is expected to surpass $2 trillion during the next four years if tuition increases.
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship February 5, 2021
CHN Staff,
February 5, 2021
The vaccinations and racial inequality edition. This week, the U.S. crossed an important hurdle in the fight against COVID-19. For the first time, the number of Americans receiving a COVID-19 vaccine exceeds the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. throughout the entire pandemic. But a trove of data released this week shows extreme racial disparities in who is getting the vaccine. White Americans are being vaccinated at rates close to four times as high as Black Americans in Pennsylvania and Florida, even though Black residents in these states are more than twice as likely to die from COVID as white residents. There is no reliable national data.
COVID-19 and xenophobia: ‘What faith and morality call us to do’
Catherine Gorey,
February 5, 2021
Some of the latest actions from the Biden administration tackle one of the starkest departures between the current and the previous President -- racial equality and xenophobia. Biden issued a series of executive orders addressing long-standing systemic racism, including in areas such as education, housing, and criminal justice. One of these executive orders addresses an unnerving statistic; hate crimes in America rose to the highest level in more than a decade in the past year and the target is overwhelmingly Asian Americans.
