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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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FY 2012 Minibus Spending Bill Moves Toward Passage
Hoping to avoid a showdown over federal spending, the Senate is taking the lead in moving Fiscal Year 2012 appropriations bills by packaging the twelve FY 2012 appropriations bills that fund discretionary programs into smaller ‘minibus’ bills.
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Republicans – and a Few Democrats – Block the President’s Jobs Package
On October 11, the Senate took a vote to end debate and move forward on the President’s full $447 billion jobs package, the American Jobs Act (S. 1660), modified, with his approval, by substituting a 5.6 percent tax on income above $1 million to pay for it.
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Disappointing Reports of Deficit Plans from Super Committee Democrats and Republicans
After weeks of behind-closed-doors discussions among the dozen members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, last week reports began to emerge about a proposal unveiled by a majority of the panel’s Democrats and another plan put forward by its Republicans.
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