This post was originally published on the National Council of La Raza’s blog on February 24. This week we begin a brand new series to highlight the struggles many Latinos have endured because of payday lending services that have trapped them in a vicious and costly cycle. The Consumer Financial…
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Pfizer’s Tax Dodge and the Impllications for Human Needs
One hundred and sixty-six years after its founding in New York City, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies is about to renounce its American identity. But not its American profits. Pfizer, which makes the popular drugs Celebrex, Lipitor, Lyrica and Viagra, among others, wants to merge with fellow drug firm…
Fact of the Week: 85 Percent of Critical Human Needs Programs Have Lost Ground Since 2010
Out of the more than 160 programs tracked by CHN that assist low-income people, 139 saw funding cuts from FY2010 through FY2016 after taking inflation into account. But it wasn’t just inflation eroding the value of the funding. New research by CHN found that nearly half of the programs (67…
Sharon, Tamara, and Living on $2 a Day
Back in December we hosted a webinar featuring Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Schaefer, the authors of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, as well as a panel of experts on poverty: Sharon and Tamara, who have experienced abject poverty first-hand and survived to share their…
Health Care’s Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
This post was originally published by Washington Monthly on February 8, 2016. Americans have a lot to gripe about when it comes to health care. But there is one very legitimate complaint: the rising cost of co-pays, deductibles, what individuals pay for insurance premiums, and other out-of-pocket (OOP) costs that has…
Human Needs Report: Special FY2017 Presidential Budget Request Edition
CHN just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. This special edition includes articles the President’s FY2017 budget request, a breakdown of the budget by select departments, and related tax policy analysis. See below for the full analysis and links…
CHN Praises President Obama’s FY17 Budget Request
Below is the Coalition on Human Needs’ statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request released today. Let us know what you think of the President’s budget by leaving a comment below, and stay tuned for a special edition of the Human Needs Report to be released in the coming days with…
Resources from around the Coalition: Immigration, Criminal Justice, Super Bowl Ads, and More
Immigration. Criminal justice. Paid sick days. CHN’s coalition members are producing great work on very important issues. This week, we continue our Resources from around the Coalition blog series, highlighting important resources you should be aware of. The National Immigration Law Center released a report in late December demonstrating that the groundwork built…
Finish this Sentence: Inequality Is…
Income. Housing. Education. Racial justice. These are just a few of the areas where inequality is evident in our society. But what does inequality mean to you? That’s the question the Ford Foundation is exploring with their new series of videos and conversations about inequality in all its forms called…
Human Needs Report: Budget Season Begins, Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill Moves, and Supreme Court Cases of Interest to the Human Needs Community
CHN just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. This edition includes articles on what to watch for in the upcoming budget season, the child nutrition reauthorization bill moving in the Senate, and two cases of interest before…
The Obama Administration Takes Steps to Reduce Child Hunger
Clint Mitchell is an elementary school principal in Prince William County, Virginia. He doesn’t like to test students at the end of the month. Why? Because their families are running out of food by then – their SNAP benefits don’t last the whole month. I heard him at a White…
Our Economy for the 1% is Bad News for Most Americans, but Particularly Americans of Color
This post was originally published on Oxfam America’s blog, The Politics of Poverty, on January 28. Inequality is on the rise worldwide, but even the effects of inequality are unequal. Wealth inequality in the United States is far greater than income inequality, and the disparities are huge between the typical…