The fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the President’s executive action on immigration came to a head in Congress last week. A partial government shutdown was averted at the last minute with a temporary stop-gap spending measure that will keep DHS funded through March 6 while the House and Senate try to work out their differences. Read More »
Even though it is a self-sustaining program funded by workers and employers, Social Security has been under withering assault in recent years. Social Security Works! argues that expanding, rather than cutting, Social Security will benefit individual people and the United States as a whole. Read More »
Testifying at a House Agriculture Committee hearing this morning, CBPP President Robert Greenstein discussed SNAP’s track record of eliminating severe hunger and malnutrition in the United States, as well as its growth in response to economic conditions and need. Read More »
Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) is a core component of Social Security. It insures workers who have suffered a serious and long-lasting disability, providing modest but vital income to support them and their families when they are unable to work. Workers earn disability insurance protection by working and contributing to Social Security; as women’s labor force participation has increased, so has the importance of DI to women’s economic security. Read More »
Testifying at a House Agriculture Committee hearing this morning, CBPP President Robert Greenstein discussed SNAP’s track record of eliminating severe hunger and malnutrition in the United States, as well as its growth in response to economic conditions and need. Read More »
In mid-February, the full House passed (272-142 and 279-137) a series of tax breaks for businesses at a cost of more than $93 billion over 10 years. The bills, H.R. 636 and H.R. 644, would make these breaks permanent parts of the tax code. Read More »
While the Great Recession technically ended in June 2009, many families, including those with children, continue to feel the effects of the United States’ most serious economic contraction since the Great Depression. As of 2013, 14.7 million children were in poverty, a significant increase from the 12.8 million children in poverty before the recession began. Read More »
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Latest Edition: March 2, 2015
Read articles from the March 2nd edition of the Human Needs Report with analysis on the recent showdown on immigration and homeland security funding in Congress, business tax breaks passed by the House, and the subcommittee hearings that have begun on the FY2016 budget. Read More »
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