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
How virtual learning led to racial inequity in education achievement gaps
Sara Chepkoit,
April 8, 2022
As families continue to navigate the pandemic, Black and Latino students remain at risk academically. One critical reason involves virtual learning. Early on, virtual learning was viewed as an innovative and necessary response to school closings. Students couldn’t be in the classroom in the pandemic’s early days, but they could still learn, the thinking went. But it did not always work out that way.
Lessons about poverty in America’s heartland
CHN Staff,
April 7, 2022
I grew up poor. My single-dad grew up poor. And now, even as entrepreneurs — the embodiment of America’s “can-do” spirit and the engine of our economy — my partner and I are only just making ends meet. I’ve had to learn a lot about poverty over the years — the endless toil, the insufficient health care, the exposure to polluted environments. It grinds down the body and the spirit. But I’ve also learned that suffering can be transformed into powerful movements for change.
CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: A look at President Biden’s FY23 budget proposal
Lecia Imbery,
April 5, 2022
CHN just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for a comprehensive look at President Biden's FY 2023 budget proposal.
CHN urges all members of U.S. Senate to support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson
CHN Staff,
April 4, 2022
On Monday, April 4, the Coalition on Human Needs delivered a letter to all members of the U.S. Senate, urging a yes vote on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The text of the letter, which was signed by CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein, is below.
CHN celebrates the “very good news” of Biden Administration’s ending inhumane rejection of asylum seekers
CHN Staff,
April 1, 2022
The Coalition on Human Needs applauds the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it is terminating its Title 42 public health order that suspended the rights of people from even making a claim for refuge in the United States, effective May 23. This is very good news for thousands of desperate people. It also affirms the rule of law and the urgent need to carry out federal policy in accordance with human rights.