April 29, 2005
- CHN: Congress Approves A Final Budget Resolution
Conference Agreement Cuts Services for Low-Income People, Increases the Deficit, and Gives Tax Breaks to the Rich Last night Congress approved a $2.6 trillion federal budget for next year that lays the groundwork for $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid, as much as $3 billion in cuts to Food Stamps, and billions in other mandatory Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Child Nutrition, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Education and Youth Policy, Food and Nutrition, Health, Health Care Reform, Housing and Homelessness, Immigration, Income Support, Job Training and Education, Labor and Employment, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Medicaid, Medicare, Minimum Wage, SNAP, Social Security, Social Services, Tax Policy, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Unemployment Insurance Comments Off - CHN: Senate Subcommittee Looks At Early Childhood Programs
The Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) told a Senate panel last week that there is enough money in the Head Start program, even though the program reaches less than half of eligible preschoolers and less than three percent of eligible infants and toddlers in Early Head Start. ACF Assistant Secretary Read More »
- CHN: Senate Panel Takes Up Social Security
On Crucial Day of Debate, Members of CHN Take Active Roles Both Inside and Outside the Capitol As Congress took up the Social Security privatization debate for the first time, members of the Coalition on Human Needs took active roles both inside the intense debates within the Capitol and in the rallies taking place just Read More »
Posted in Social Security Comments Off - CHN: Human Needs Community Fears Fallout from Nuclear Option
Following the Senate’s failure to vote on ten of President Bush’s judicial nominations considered by critics to have legal views far to the right of the mainstream, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has recently threatened to use a procedural maneuver, termed the “nuclear option” by Trent Lott, to end the ability of Senators to Read More »
Posted in Minimum Wage Comments Off - CHN: Anti-Immigration Provisions Part of Iraq Spending Bill
The most serious anti-immigrant legislation in nearly ten years is included in the House version of a must-pass bill funding the ongoing war in Iraq. The House voted to include anti-immigration provisions (known as REAL ID) as part of the Iraq war supplemental spending bill, agreed to on March 16 ( HR 1268 ) . Advocates Read More »
Posted in Immigration, Labor and Employment Comments Off
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