Human Needs Watch: Why SNAP Cuts Hurt People and Must Not Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy- Words and Pictures
March 17, 2025
CHN Joins Civil Rights and Health Equity Groups to Release Report Showing that Extreme Medicaid Cuts in the House-passed Budget Will Harm Millions of People
March 13, 2025
Human Needs Watch: Why SNAP Cuts Hurt People and Must Not Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy- Words and Pictures
March 17, 2025
CHN Joins Civil Rights and Health Equity Groups to Release Report Showing that Extreme Medicaid Cuts in the House-passed Budget Will Harm Millions of People
March 13, 2025
Mean-spirited and a waste of tax dollars: Trump administration pulls plug on ACA advertising
David Elliot,
January 27, 2017
Late Thursday, the startling news began breaking: In the final, critical week of the 2017 enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration ordered that outreach and advertising efforts touting the enrollment deadline be halted. The news, first reported in Politico, will tamp down final 2017 enrollment numbers,...
Opposing Rep. Mulvaney for OMB Director
Lecia Imbery,
January 26, 2017
During Rep. Mick Mulvaney’s Jan. 24 confirmation hearings to be the head of the Office of Management and Budget, Democratic senators reminded those present and watching online about some of his past actions, including when he called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, voted for a measure in the South Carolina state...
Opposing Rep. Price for HHS Secretary
Lecia Imbery,
January 26, 2017
On Jan. 24, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) sat before the Senate Finance Committee and made his case for why he should be confirmed as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. A recording of the hearing can be viewed here. Many Democratic senators were unhappy with Rep. Price’s...
March On!
Leo Nguyen,
January 25, 2017
Editor’s note: This post was written by Leo Nguyen, CHN’s new intern. As the 45th President of the United States was inaugurated last Friday, Washington D.C. witnessed a transition of power from President Obama to President Trump. Across our nation, many people celebrated and many felt defeated. The inauguration was...
More than 1,300 groups tell Congress and Trump: Don’t take America backwards
Lecia Imbery,
January 25, 2017
Earlier today, CHN and more than 1,300 national, state and local groups sent a powerful message to Congress and the Trump Administration: don’t harm low-income people or the programs they depend on. The news release about this action is below. To see a copy of the letter and a list of...
