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
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, March 31, 2023
CHN Staff,
March 31, 2023
The Medicaid unwinding edition. Early in the pandemic, Congress gave states more Medicaid money to address COVID-19. In return, states were not allowed to drop people from their Medicaid rolls. That ends tomorrow. Beginning April 1, five states – Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire, and South Dakota – will start ending Medicaid coverage for those who have not demonstrated their continued eligibility. Almost every other state will follow in May, June, or July. And by roughly one year from now, millions will have lost access to health care.
On ACA’s 13th anniversary, White House launches two-pronged approach to defend it
David Elliot,
March 23, 2023
President Biden joined past and present leaders in Congress and health care advocates throughout the country this week in marking the 13th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The White House’s celebration of the ACA’s birthday on Thursday was a two-pronged effort that focused both on the law’s success – more Americans have access to health care than ever before – and on threats to its well-being
Will Congress Take This Opportunity to Fight for Workers? The Reintroduction of the PRO Act
Fadima Tall,
March 23, 2023
“The union is not some third-party entity that makes decisions for people, the union is the workers.” This is what the vice president of a local union in Orlando, Florida told me the first time I met him as he recruited me to help the food service workers at my private college in a wealthy suburb of Orlando. Prior to meeting him, I knew nothing about unions and was in the dark about the way the college's food supplier treated its workers.
Advocates react to President Biden’s proposed asylum ban: ‘Our families deserve dignity and respect’
David Elliot,
March 22, 2023
At a recent rally near the base of the Washington Monument, immigrant advocates gathered to demand that the Biden Administration back off its plans to institute an asylum ban for many applicants as well as a possible return to the practice of family detention, frequently used during the Trump era.
CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: An in-depth look at President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal
Lecia Imbery,
March 20, 2023
CHN just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for a comprehensive look at President Biden's FY24 budget proposal.
