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CHN's Legislative Action Center enables organizations and coalitions to share timely information on actions and legislative initiatives that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations.
If you would like to post an action, please contact Richelle Friedman at
Tell Your Senators to Extend Unemployment Insurance Before it Expires in December
Unemployment benefits will expire in December: Tell Your Senators to ACT NOW to extend the current program without restrictions!
Please take a moment to send this emailable letter to your Senators! Help protect unemployment insurance for millions of hardworking Americans.
Please send a letter now, and encourage your friends to do the same.
Submit Your Story to the CHN/Half in Ten Storybank
Have a story about the way services have helped you and your family? We want to hear from you!
Half in Ten and the Coalition on Human Needs are collecting stories highlighting the ways that federal programs successfully build economic security and meet the needs of vulnerable populations. Submit your human needs program success story to the CHN/Half in Ten storybank project today.
We welcome short video clips or written stories from anyone who can speak to the benefit and success of federal programs such as direct beneficiaries, social service providers, and community, faith or business leaders. For more instructions and guidelines on submitting your story click here. A sample video is available here.
Hostage Prevention Initative
Fellow Hostages: Tired of being taken?
Human needs are always held hostage in Washington; the price of meeting them is frequently paid out in upper-income and business tax breaks. Then, when revenues are low, we’re told there’s no money to meet human needs.
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If you’re ready to change this infuriating scenario sign-up here and tell us what you can do to help. For example, writing op-eds or letters to the editor; submitting a story about the value of services you have received or provided; writing about the about the impact of cuts; or having your organization hold a forum. Other suggestions welcome.
Just click here and tell us what you can do to help show that jobs, food, and other human needs are worth investing in - and billions for the inheritors of 3,000 estates are not.
For inspiration, read Deborah Weinstein's Huffington Post piece, The Economy--and the Unemployed--Held Hostage.
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