The Biden budget translates moral clarity about shared prosperity into dollars and cents
CHN Staff,
March 9, 2023
The Biden budget makes right and responsible choices: less poverty, more jobs, investments that help workers, families, and children, and more economic security for older Americans. It translates moral clarity about the need for shared prosperity into dollars and cents.
Witnesses: Both default on debt and deep spending cuts would cause lasting economic damage
David Elliot,
March 9, 2023
Rare, bipartisan agreement broke out in a Senate subcommittee hearing this week when Democrats, Republicans, and both conservative and progressive economists agreed that the U.S. must avoid defaulting on its debt later this year.
In memory: Karen Hobert Flynn
CHN Staff,
March 8, 2023
All of us at the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) are deeply saddened at the passing of Karen Hobert Flynn, President of Common Cause. She was a tireless fighter for democracy.
A health care cliff is coming
CHN Staff,
March 2, 2023
I’m one of the 84 million Americans who get our health care through Medicaid. And I’m one of the 18 million who might lose it starting this spring unless our policymakers take action. I went to college, got a degree, and planned on being self-sufficient. But in my early 20s, I was struck by an autoimmune condition that caused painful, chronic flare ups that affected my ability to stand or walk.
Impending SNAP cuts: ‘There’s no way…that we’re ever going to make up fully for what’s being lost’
David Elliot,
February 28, 2023
Beginning this week, tens of millions of Americans in 32 states, Washington, D.C., Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands may have less to eat. That’s because increased SNAP aid approved by Congress in 2020 as part of COVID-19 relief legislation – called “emergency allotments” (EAs) -- comes to an end beginning March 1.
