More than 250 Organizations Urge the House to Prioritize Children’s Safety in FY26 DHS Appropriations Vote
March 5, 2026
The REAL State of the Union: Soaring Gains at the Top; Struggles to Meet Basic Needs for Millions
February 24, 2026
More than 250 Organizations Urge the House to Prioritize Children’s Safety in FY26 DHS Appropriations Vote
March 5, 2026
The REAL State of the Union: Soaring Gains at the Top; Struggles to Meet Basic Needs for Millions
February 24, 2026
Continuing King’s ‘revolution of values’
CHN Staff,
January 14, 2022
On January 15, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was leaving a planning meeting for the Poor People’s Campaign when he was called back into the room. It was his birthday — his last, it would turn out. The staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference would usually give King a new suit, but this year they wanted to make him laugh. Xernona Clayton teased, “We know how fond you are of our president Lyndon Johnson,” which got a laugh. Then she pulled out a metal cup engraved: “We are cooperating with Lyndon’s War on Poverty. Drop coins and bills in cup.”
Where’s my Child Tax Credit?
David Elliot,
January 13, 2022
For the past six months, more than 61 million children in roughly 36 million families across the U.S. have received a monthly payment of $250 or $300 per child. Today, some parents may be surprised – in a very bad way – to learn that the monthly payments have ended. Tax credits that would have landed in families’ bank accounts beginning Friday, January 14 won’t happen because the Senate could not agree to extend them.
Affordable child care is the boost our economy needs
CHN Staff,
January 7, 2022
Child care is one of the biggest expenses many families face — in much of the country, it can run higher than college tuition. Could a national child care program ease that burden? If the Build Back Better bill can be rescued, our country may get another opportunity to make a historic investment in our future.
CHN ‘s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, January 7, 2022
CHN Staff,
January 7, 2022
The omnipotent omicron edition. Omicron is exploding and testing is falling woefully short. The U.S. is now averaging 610,989 cases a day – a record during the pandemic – and a 227 percent increase from two weeks ago. Hospitalizations in some areas are rising sharply. When one digs deeply into the omicron numbers, there is both bad and good news to be mined.
Holiday cheer: Affordable Care Act smashes enrollment records
David Elliot,
December 23, 2021
Omicron is surging and the Build Back Better Act is stalled. Yet there is some really good news to report this holiday season: a record 13.6 million Americans have signed up for individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and that number is only going to increase over the next three weeks.
