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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
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The Senate Finance Committee Takes Up Health Reform
At last, the Senate Finance Committee has put forth its health proposal and began marking up and debating the proposal on September 22.
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Fiscal Year 2010 Set to Begin: No Funding Bills Have Been Completed
The October 1 beginning of the 2010 fiscal year is fast approaching and Congress has not completed work on any of its 12 appropriations bills which provide annual funding for all discretionary programs.
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As Joblessness Rises, Congress Takes Steps to Extend Unemployment Insurance
By the end of September, more than 400,000 unemployed people will exhaust all the state and federal unemployment benefits available to them.
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