Social Services - Human Needs Report Archives
2007
Bills Introduced to Restore Child Support Funding (4/20/07)
2006
The Older Americans Act is Reauthorize (10/04/06) Senate Finance Committee Holds First Child Welfare Hearing in Ten Years (5/05/06) House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
2005
Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Programs (10/28/05) Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Families (9/16/05) Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps in Wake of Katrina (9/16/05) Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) House and Senate Budget Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Deep Cuts in President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05)
2004
Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) TANF Extension Bill Introduced in House: Threatens a Massive Increase in Work With No Resources (3/4/04) CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04)
2003
Action Needed to Preserve SSBG Funding Restoration (10/10/03) More Americans Living in Poverty (9/26/03) Charitable Giving Act Moves Forward in the House Without SSBG Funding (9/12/03) Senate Passes Pared Down Faith-Based Legislation (4/14/03) Bush Delivers State of the Union Address (1/31/03)
2002
Many Programs Benefiting Poor Face Reauthorization in 2003 (11/22/02) Faith-Based Initiative Still Stalled in the Senate (9/27/02) Senate Committee Approves Child Care Bill (9/13/02) House Considers Education Tax-Break Measure (9/13/02) Finance Committee Passes Amended Version of CARE Act (6/21/02) House Passes Child Abuse Protection Legislation (4/26/02) Senators Reach Compromise Deal on Faith-Based Initiative (2/28/02)
