Last month, Congress passed a budget outline that calls for deep cuts to everything from housing to health care to Head Start. Now they are starting to fill in the specifics – specifics that would further increase poverty and inequality. As we hit the next stage of the budget battle, we…
Archives: Voices
33 Senators Join Chorus of Voices Condemning Obama’s Family Detention Policies
[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the American Civil Liberties Union’s blog, Washington Markup, on June 3. If you represent a national organization, please sign this letter being circulated by CHN urging President Obama to end the practice of family detentions.] One third of the Senate has had enough of the…
Strengthen Minimum Wage – and EITC
[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ blog, Off the Charts, on May 27. On the same day, the National Women’s Law Center released an updated version of their related fact sheet, The Minimum Wage and EITC: Complementary Strategies Helping Women Life Their…
Save the Date! CHN’s 12th Annual Human Needs Hero Reception
The Coalition on Human Needs is proud to announce that the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) has been chosen as the 2015 Human Needs Hero. Please save the date and plan to join us July 30th as we celebrate the heroic achievements of NWLC. The 12th annual Human Needs Hero…
Why Your Story on Nutrition Assistance Matters
A compelling personal story is worth 100 statistics. Personal experiences can help move hearts and minds and create urgency. That’s why CHN, Center for American Progress, Food Research and Action Center, Feeding America, and Witnesses to Hunger are partnering to launch a campaign to gather and share personal experiences about…
Cleaning Our Rivers, Greening Our City and Creating Living Wage Jobs in Washington, DC
Are we caring for the least of these? This is the question I constantly ask myself. Our church sits in one of the poorest wards of the District of Columbia and I often minister to men and women returning home from prison. It is our mission as a congregation to…
Gasping for Support
Living in poverty can be hazardous to your health in many respects – more incidences of violence, less access to quality grocery stores, and few safe places to exercise, just to name a few. Previous studies have shown those living in poverty also breathe dirtier air. Regular exposure to air…
Head Smacker: If You Aint Cheating, You Aint Trying
“If you aint cheating, you aint trying.” That’s what a currency trader at Barclays Bank shared in an online chat room about criminal currency manipulation. Those words to live by have resulted in four mammoth banks pleading guilty to federal collusion charges. They will pay fines of $5.6 billion. That’s…
Celebrate 50 years of Head Start with an #EarlyEdChat
Head Start is celebrating its 50th birthday! Join us and other advocates for the weekly #EarlyEdChat to celebrate this important milestone for the Head Start program. On May 21st at 2pm ET, MomsRising and special guest National Head Start Association will kick off a tweetchat via the #EarlyEdChat hashtag. Come and share your questions, stories, resources,…
Fact of the Week: Nearly One in Four Children in the U.S. is Served by the Federal Child Support Program
In Idaho, the proportion of children relying on Child Support Services is even higher – 28 percent. Many in the state learned that the hard way this week, as Idaho’s state legislature held an unusual special session to take up legislation to prevent the state from losing access to federal child…
Human Needs Report: Appropriations showdowns looming and TANF reform
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 looming appropriations showdowns and proposals to reform TANF that would help (and hurt) recipients. See below for the full analysis and links to each…
What Portion of Our Collective Wealth Are We Willing to Invest So That People Can Succeed?
This post was originally published by The Huffington Post on May 14, 2015. That is the question President Obama posed at a Georgetown University Catholic-Evangelical Summit on Overcoming Poverty on May 12. It was a fascinating discussion – not least because it was a discussion, with the President exchanging views…