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
Survey: White students much more likely to receive in-person learning during pandemic
David Elliot,
March 26, 2021
White students are much more likely to be receiving in-person learning than minority students, revealing yet another form of racial disparity during the pandemic, stark new data released this week show. The U.S. Department of Education this week released the first in a series of school surveys aimed at providing a national view of learning during the pandemic. The survey showed that the percentage of students still attending school virtually may be higher than previously thought.
Hunger in the U.S. Military: ‘Families have been struggling with this for a long time’
Catherine Gorey,
March 23, 2021
COVID-19 has caused hardship among the nation’s vulnerable, but a surprising issue is coming to the forefront that has been festering for many years; hunger in military families. CBS News shared the story of Kay, a military spouse, who recently traveled to a food bank to feed her family of six. "It lasts a couple of days, maybe just because there are so many of us in the house," said Kay. "I cannot feed my kids. I cannot make this vehicle payment because I had to feed my kids. It's just unacceptable, really,"
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship March 19, 2021
CHN Staff,
March 19, 2021
The shot in the arm edition. More than one in five Americans have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination; that number is slowly climbing toward one in four. But it is not just tens of millions of Americans who are receiving a shot in the arm – so is our economy, thanks to the American Rescue Plan.
People of conscience must speak out and take action against hate
CHN Staff,
March 19, 2021
The Coalition on Human Needs stands with the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and with people of conscience throughout our nation in outrage and grief over the hateful killings of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in Atlanta.
How the American Rescue Plan will save the child care industry and put women back to work
David Elliot,
March 17, 2021
Almost exactly one year ago, Kate Aronoff’s child care center closed due to COVID-19. She thought it would be closed for two weeks, and then her 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter would be able to return. But then Kate and her husband, who live in the small college town of Corvallis, Oregon, learned it was closing permanently. “We started calling around to all of the child care centers in our small-ish town to see who might have space and were able to get my children enrolled in another day care. However, two weeks later, we learned that that day care was also closing permanently, which was another big blow.”
