Human Needs Report

The Human Needs Report is the Coalition on Human Needs' newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. It is published every other week while Congress is in session.

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Articles from September 30, 2005

• Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running
  With most appropriations bills not yet signed into law, Congress moved quickly to approve a bill that will keep the government running beyond the end of the 2005 fiscal year.
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• Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of Congress, White House
  Health Care, Housing, Unemployment Compensation Held Up in Washington
  People who have lost homes, jobs, or worse in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita need streamlined access to Medicaid coverage, unemployment insurance, housing, and food. They need jobs. Survivors continue to wait in endless lines for help.
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• Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for the Wealthy
  Congress has delayed by one month its plans to cut $35 billion from services that mostly help low-income individuals, such as Medicaid, food stamps and student loans. Plans for an additional $70 billion in new tax cuts have also been delayed.
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• Head Start Reauthorization Moves in the House
  Legislation re-authorizing Head Start, known as The School Readiness Act (H.R. 2123), passed the House of Representatives September 22.
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• Higher Education Act Extension to Allow Time to Consider Reauthorization
  On September 26, the Senate approved a three-month extension for the Higher Education Act (HEA), the law that provides $73 billion for postsecondary schools and students, providing more time for the House and Senate to resolve their differing approaches to reauthorizing the law.
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