Our Path Forward: Advocates nationwide join in CHN’s webinar on how to protect people despite threats from the new Administration and Congress
January 15, 2025
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Vote for Human Needs, October 21, 2024
CHN Staff,
October 21, 2024
The Vote for Human Needs edition. Democracy is under attack and CHN is fighting back. New, restrictive voter ID laws have been enacted in state after state. Many states are shortening the time we have to vote, or making it more difficult to have our votes counted. Often, the brunt of this oppression falls on people of color, students, the elderly, or first-time voters.
VoteRiders to the rescue
David Elliot,
October 17, 2024
Seiyanna had a voter ID problem. The first-time voter wanted to register, but a new law in her home state of Nebraska required her to use her driver’s license to vote – but it was expired and she could not afford to renew it. But one afternoon, Seiyanna stumbled across VoteRiders’ Nebraska Voter ID Information Cards at a Juneteenth Celebration in Omaha.
Census Bureau updates on disability community stakeholders
Deborah Stein,
October 15, 2024
We reported to you earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau met with disability community stakeholders September 30 in the D.C. metro area to better understand challenges in data availability and access for their community. The meeting brought together federal agency staff, disability stakeholders and community representatives, data users, and disability advocates.
24 states with 30 million taxpayers to join IRS Direct File next year
David Elliot,
October 11, 2024
Earlier this month, the IRS and the Department of Treasury announced that Direct File will be expanded so more than 30 million taxpayers in 24 states will be eligible in the 2025 tax season. The announcement comes after Direct File launched earlier this year with a pilot program that began with 12 states and more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully completing their taxes.
Democracy at Stake: Dispatch from the Nuns on the Bus and Friends
Deborah Weinstein,
October 8, 2024
On Monday evening hundreds of people gathered at the Detroit Gesu Catholic Church for a Town Hall with the Nuns on the Bus and Friends – a cross-country bus tour on the theme “Vote Our Future.” They were asked to name out issues most important to them in the upcoming election. I’m one of the Friends riding the bus – not a nun, but honored to be invited because of the close cooperation of the Coalition on Human Needs, which I direct, and NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice, the sponsor of the bus tour and a member of CHN.
