Fact of the Week: 85 Percent of Critical Human Needs Programs Have Lost Ground Since 2010
Lecia Imbery,
February 24, 2016
Out of the more than 160 programs tracked by CHN that assist low-income people, 139 saw funding cuts from FY2010 through FY2016 after taking inflation into account. But it wasn’t just inflation eroding the value of the funding. New research by CHN found that nearly half of the programs (67...
Sharon, Tamara, and Living on $2 a Day
David Elliot,
February 18, 2016
Back in December we hosted a webinar featuring Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Schaefer, the authors of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, as well as a panel of experts on poverty: Sharon and Tamara, who have experienced abject poverty first-hand and survived to share their...
Health Care’s Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
Andrew L. Yarrow,
February 17, 2016
This post was originally published by Washington Monthly on February 8, 2016. Americans have a lot to gripe about when it comes to health care. But there is one very legitimate complaint: the rising cost of co-pays, deductibles, what individuals pay for insurance premiums, and other out-of-pocket (OOP) costs that has...
Human Needs Report: Special FY2017 Presidential Budget Request Edition
Joanna Sandager,
February 16, 2016
CHN just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. This special edition includes articles the President’s FY2017 budget request, a breakdown of the budget by select departments, and related tax policy analysis. See below for the full analysis and links...
CHN Praises President Obama’s FY17 Budget Request
Lecia Imbery,
February 9, 2016
Below is the Coalition on Human Needs’ statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request released today. Let us know what you think of the President’s budget by leaving a comment below, and stay tuned for a special edition of the Human Needs Report to be released in the coming days with...
