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
A wealth of data
Deborah Stein,
September 18, 2024
It's unusual for us at CHN to write about a wealth of anything, but we are delighted to offer you a wealth of American Community Survey data on how people are faring in your state, congressional district, or major metropolitan area.
Census Bureau releases American Community Survey (ACS)
David Elliot,
September 12, 2024
Today the Census Bureau released new American Community Survey (ACS), 1-year estimates. This includes data for states, communities, and congressional districts on a wealth of topics, including income, poverty, health insurance, housing, education, disability and much more for the most recent year available (2023).
Measuring human needs advocacy success
David Elliot,
September 11, 2024
Tuesday the Census Bureau released its CPS-ASEC and Supplemental Poverty Measure for 2023: -- for human needs advocates, the most important Census Bureau release of the year when our government measures the progress we are making when it comes to fighting poverty, lack of health care, and income disparities between rich and poor. It is also a time for us to come together as a human needs community and celebrate the progress we have made – and we have made progress, although there is still much work to be done.
A Few Brief Highlights from Tuesday’s Census Bureau Data Release
David Elliot,
September 11, 2024
Real median household income increased from 2022 to 2023, poverty increased (but with a caveat), and the number of Americans without health insurance remained unchanged, according to Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday. Of prime importance, the survey data showed greater struggles for families when taking into account more accurate assumptions about their income and expenses.
What we can learn from the new poverty and health insurance data out this week
Deborah Weinstein,
September 9, 2024
Tuesday’s release of data about poverty, income, and health insurance will reinforce vital lessons. We learned that the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), in place in 2021, reduced child poverty nearly by half. Despite this historic gain for children, there were not enough votes in Congress to continue the CTC expansion. So the nation got another, much more painful, lesson: in 2022, the child poverty rate as measured by the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure more than doubled, rising from 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022. What happened to child poverty in 2023 is one of the most important findings to look for on Tuesday. If child poverty remains substantially higher than it was when families benefited from the expanded Child Tax Credit, it confirms the lesson we have already learned: we must restore the expanded CTC.
