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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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Medicaid Program at Risk
During deficit reduction discussions about entitlement programs much attention is being paid by the media and members of Congress to Medicare and Social Security.
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The Senate Rejects a Bunch of Budget Plans;
Action on the Floor Still a Sideshow to Biden Debt Ceiling Negotiations
On May 25 the Senate took up four separate budget resolutions and voted them all down.
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Congress Looking to Change Unemployment Insurance;
House to Consider So-Called "Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011"
The House Committee on Ways and Means voted along party lines on May 11th, 2011 to dismantle the federal unemployment insurance program (UI).
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Hundreds of Thousands of Small Children and Mothers Would Lose Food Aid if House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Gets Its Way
Appropriators in the House are starting to turn the cuts in total spending proposed in the House Budget Resolution into specific reductions in essential services.
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