House Budget Proposal Hurts Millions of People to Pay for Still More Breaks for the Rich
February 17, 2025
House Budget Proposal Hurts Millions of People to Pay for Still More Breaks for the Rich
February 17, 2025
Human Needs Report: Appropriations, Tax Cuts, Sentencing Reform and More
Lecia Imbery,
October 6, 2015
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 edition includes articles on appropriations, tax policy, nutrition programs, social security, and sentencing reform. See below for the full analysis and links to each section of the report....
URGENT ACTION: 3 ways to tell Congress to #StopTheCuts
Joanna Sandager,
October 1, 2015
Congress averted a shutdown and passed short-term funding through December 11. But their work is not done. America needs a full-year plan to increase funding – and Congress needs to get to work NOW. Programs that support housing, Head Start, job training, nutrition aid, and education are all at risk. Your...
Resources from Around the Coalition: Poverty, Wage Gap, Economic Growth and More
William Marker,
September 25, 2015
Poverty. Wage gap. Economic growth. Following the Census Bureau’s release of annual poverty data and the release of CHN’s national poverty report, we wanted to highlight some amazing and related work by our coalition members in our Resources from the around the Coalition blog series. ♦ The National Women’s Law...
Congress is days away from a government shutdown. Tell them to get to work.
Joanna Sandager,
September 23, 2015
Congress needs to hear from you. We must raise our voices loud and clear and say no to government shutdown and no to cuts. After September 30, parts of the federal government will shut down if Congress does not approve FY 2016 funding. They may be ensnarled enough in divisive...
Cutting Poverty in Half Will Take a Quarter Century at This Rate
Lecia Imbery,
September 21, 2015
Even under the optimistic assumption that poverty continues to decline at the same rate it did from 2013 to 2014, it would take until 2040 for the poverty rate to be cut in half to 7.7 percent. Getting child poverty to the same level would take until 2049. These are...
