Celebrating Disability Voting Rights Week: ‘The largest minority voting bloc’
Emily Rodriguez,
September 15, 2022
Every year, issues that directly impact people with disabilities, such as Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare are placed on the operating table, ready to be sliced up and examined. “Vote as if your life depends on it because it does,” says Justin Dart, Co-Founder of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). This statement can resonate with anyone but rings especially true for people with disabilities.
CHN: Federal investments pay off and lift millions out of poverty
CHN Staff,
September 13, 2022
In 2021, families saw the benefits of federal investments in their well-being. The Child Tax Credit, improved nutrition assistance, and other benefits aimed at helping people cope with the economic dislocations of the pandemic worked to lift millions of people out of poverty. The Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which takes many federal benefits into account in calculating poverty rates, found that 9.6 million fewer people were poor because of low-income tax credits, and 8.9 million people were protected from poverty by the stimulus payments sent out. Other forms of assistance also lifted millions out of poverty, including SNAP and school lunch food aid (3.4 million) and housing subsidies (2.4 million).
High School Voter Registration Week is approaching!
David Elliot,
September 9, 2022
When it comes to young people turning out to vote, there is bad news, good news, and more good news.
CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: FY23 Appropriations Update, Inflation Reduction Act, and more
Lecia Imbery,
September 6, 2022
CHN just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for a comprehensive update on the FY23 appropriations process, including highlights of what is happening in the Senate, along with news about the Inflation Reduction Act.
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, September 2, 2022
CHN Staff,
September 2, 2022
The back-to-school edition. Kids are returning to classrooms, but we find students, teachers, and schools themselves in a pandemic-related crisis. For students, the damage that has been done became more apparent than ever this past Thursday, September 1, when new data revealed just how big a hit students took academically during the pandemic’s first two years. New test results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “nation’s report card,” showed students of all income levels and ethnicities on average fared much worse in early 2022 than they did in early 2020, just before the pandemic. But students from families with low incomes and Black and Hispanic students fared even worse.
