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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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Congress Enacts Measure to Avert a Government Shutdown
Just hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1, the President signed into law the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (PL 111-242) to allow annually appropriated government operations and programs to continue through December 3, 2010.
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Action on Expiring Tax Cuts Delayed
Congress recessed until after the November elections without addressing the Bush era 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and the improvements in the refundable tax credits enacted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009, both set to expire at the end of 2010.
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Child Nutrition Renewal Pushed into Lame Duck Session
House Objects to Cutting Food Stamps to Pay for It
With fears that legislation to improve child nutrition programs might not make it to final passage, pressure mounted in the House to accept the child nutrition bill approved by the Senate (S. 3307). This idea was shelved however when opposition arose over the Senate’s use of SNAP/food stamp cuts to pay for much of its child nutrition improvements.
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Congress Lets Successful Job Creation Program Expire
Despite staggering national unemployment statistics, Congress allowed a successful jobs program that generated a quarter of a million jobs, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund, expire on September 30.
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Congress Must Extend Unemployment Benefits in Lame Duck Session
In July, H.R. 4213 extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed through the end of November 2010. Now the unemployed once again face an impending lapse of the federal unemployment insurance program, unless Congress acts when it returns for a lame duck session during the week of November 15.
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