CHN Urges the Senate to Separate DHS Appropriations Bill from Larger Package, Reject DHS Funding
January 26, 2026
Congress must protect child care services. Workers cannot be in two places at once.
Fadima Tall,
March 15, 2023
Every weekday during the semester, I wake up by 8 a.m. to get ready for class at my small, primarily white, liberal arts college in the wealthy Orlando suburb that is Winter Park. Once I step out of my apartment, my first destination is the on-campus café where I pick up my Chai Latte on the way to class. The young woman that works the morning shift on weekdays knows all of us students by name and always remembers my order. Despite all that she does to make my campus a welcoming environment for me, I had never considered what it was like for her as a food service worker at a private university. It wasn't until I learned of a union organizing effort among cafeteria workers that I realized the need for reform.
President Biden’s FY 2024 budget: An evidence-based investment in reversing and reducing America’s drug epidemic
Don Mathis,
March 15, 2023
A 26-year-old man with severe open wounds on both legs is injecting fentanyl three days a day. A 22-year-old woman injection drug user just found out her boyfriend with whom she shares needles tested positive for HIV and hepatitis C. Two 14-year-old boys in Utah buy online what they think is Adderall; the counterfeit pills are really fentanyl and they die within hours after swallowing the pills. Americans saw 110,315 fatal drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in March 2022 -- 294 deaths per day.
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.
