Coalition on Human Needs: House Farm Bill is a cruel and inhumane blueprint for increasing hunger in America
May 21, 2024
A celebration of the Supreme Court decision in favor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by CHN’s Executive Director Deborah Weinstein
May 16, 2024
Death and Taxes: Inevitable for All?
Deborah Weinstein,
October 27, 2014
Considering being very rich? It has a lot of advantages. Even those two things said to be inevitable – death and taxes – can be stalled, if not evaded altogether. Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published a paper this month documenting that widening inequality is not just a matter...
Yellen Makes the Case for Reducing Inequality
Lecia Imbery,
October 24, 2014
“The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concerns me. The past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century after more than 40 years of narrowing inequality following the Great Depression. By some estimates, income and wealth inequality...
Child Care Centers and the Quality Improvement Catch-22
Carol Burnett,
October 23, 2014
This post was originally published on the Half in Ten Education Fund’s TalkPoverty blog on October 22. Quality, affordable child care is not only right and necessary to prepare children to learn; it’s also needed if low-income working parents are to have a shot at working their way out of poverty....
Fact of the Week: The Most Effective Anti-Poverty Programs for Children
Lecia Imbery,
October 22, 2014
Children remain the age group most disproportionately poor in our country – roughly one out of five children in the U.S. is poor – and the statistics are far worse for children of color and children in cities, where the numbers are closer to one out of three. We know...
The Intersection of Poverty and Domestic Violence
Lecia Imbery,
October 16, 2014
We know that poverty disproportionately affects women and single moms. In 2013, nearly 16 percent of women and nearly 40 percent of families with children headed by a woman lived in poverty, higher than their male counterparts. We know that women who are poor are more likely to suffer from health...
