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
White House forum explores growing youth mental health crisis
Carly Shaffer,
May 27, 2022
Eva Long’s mother was overseas when she got a call saying her daughter had committed suicide while away at college. "I was just in shock. I said, 'This can't be real. This can't be true,'" Long said. "That cry of a mother when they've lost their child is a pretty wicked one, and I couldn't stop it."
How the American Rescue Plan created a more just America
David Elliot,
May 26, 2022
The Biden Administration this week released a detailed report laying out not just how the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) helped the country recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the pandemic-related recession, but also took historic steps to promote racial and income equity.
Survivors, children’s advocates speak out about abuse in youth treatment settings
Carly Shaffer,
May 24, 2022
Alex was just 13 years old when he was transported at 4:23 a.m. to wilderness therapy, having no clue where he was going, or who was bringing him. The child believed he was kidnapped. At the simplest definition of the term, he was. Following the “abduction” as Alex calls it, he did not have access to a shower for 27 days. He was stripped of his basic human rights and humiliated: put into isolation for lashing out. He was a hurting child who needed love, instead, he got traumatized.
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, May 20, 2022
CHN Staff,
May 20, 2022
The million deaths edition. This week, the United States surpassed one million officially recorded deaths from COVID-19. So many people died from COVID-19 that a disease that didn’t even exist three years ago has become the third leading cause of death in this country, behind heart disease and cancer. This toll does not take into account so much additional pain and hardship – isolation, depression, job loss, homelessness, drug or alcohol addiction, millions of kids falling behind in school or dropping out altogether. The list goes on and on and on.
Disarm hatred.
Deborah Weinstein,
May 18, 2022
At the Tops market in Buffalo, New York on May 14, people were doing ordinary things. Picking up groceries after visiting a husband in a nursing home; buying a birthday cake for a son. We don’t often think about the ordinary people around us, about how they enrich the life of our communities. But in that viciously cruel moment at the Tops market, ten important lives were ended – people whose days were filled with support for their families and communities.
