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
CHN’s Podcast Episode 1: Raising the Federal Minimum Wage
Abigail Alpern Fisch,
May 27, 2021
In our first episode of the Voices for Human Needs Podcast, hear from three policy advocates, activists, and organizers discuss the top-line impacts of raising the federal minimum wage through the Raise the Wage Act, the disproportionate impacts of a low federal minimum wage on women workers and BIPOC workers, and what listeners can do to organize in your communities in support of One Fair Wage.
COVID-19 and children: An ongoing nutrition crisis
Catherine Gorey,
May 26, 2021
When COVID-19 struck, hunger among children increased sharply. By March of this year, up to 8.8 million children lived in households reporting that their children did not have enough to eat in the past 7 days. Before the pandemic, in December of 2019, 1.1 million children were in households in which children did not have enough to eat at some point in the previous 30 days.
The long-term impact of COVID-19: Assessing the pandemic’s youngest victims
Catherine Gorey,
May 24, 2021
Possibly the broadest impact of COVID-19 lies in its economic ramifications. From the effect of lockdowns on labor practices and employment to the loss of community supports and services that require in-person attention, the pandemic pushed apart cracks in a faltering social safety net in America. As more households fall into poverty, children have become one of the pandemic’s biggest victims. Beginning today, a new Voices for Human Needs series of blog posts will highlight how the pandemic has harmed children and families in poverty, focusing on children of all ages and how key risk factors have evolved in the age of COVID-19.
For some, no ID has meant no COVID-19 vaccination
David Elliot,
May 21, 2021
Miguel has tried twice to get the COVID-19 vaccination. So far, he’s 0 for 2. As an undocumented construction worker living in crowded conditions outside of Miami, Miguel is a prime example of someone who needs the COVID-19 vaccination – as well as representative of a population public health officials acutely want to see vaccinated. But like millions of people living in the U.S., Miguel lacks state-issued identification.
Small business owners praise Biden proposals, bemoan pro-corporate tilt of America’s tax code
David Elliot,
May 20, 2021
Rosalind McCallard lives in Portland, Oregon. Along with her husband, she owns Snackrilege Vegan Foods, which she cheerfully describes as the “only wholesale heavy metal-themed sandwich company in the world – at least in the U.S., but probably the world!” McCallard and her husband favor President Biden’s plan to more progressively tax corporations and the wealthiest Americans to pay for the proposed American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan.
