2025 Poverty and Income Numbers Will Show How Affordability Crisis and H.R.1 Changes Drive Inequality
September 4, 2026
NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
September 1, 2026
2025 Poverty and Income Numbers Will Show How Affordability Crisis and H.R.1 Changes Drive Inequality
September 4, 2026
NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
September 1, 2026
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The Income Squeeze: Millions of Americans with modest incomes finding it harder to afford the basics in 2025-2026.
September 11, 2026
The national poverty, income, and health insurance data being released by the Census Bureau on September 15 will have important information, but it will not tell us about how this year’s price, wage and tax changes have been squeezing millions of household budgets, or how cutbacks in health care and…
What to expect from the September 15 Census poverty, income and health insurance data—and what you won’t get
September 11, 2026
On September 15, the Census Bureau will release national 2025 poverty, income, and health insurance data, but not the ACS state and local data historically released the same week.
Unions are extremely popular
September 9, 2026
Fact sheet by EPI, a member of CHN.
56 million workers would join a union if they could.
2025 Poverty and Income Numbers Will Show How Affordability Crisis and H.R.1 Changes Drive Inequality
September 4, 2026
Blog post by CLASP, a member of CHN
Poverty is the result of systemic failures, and our nation and the people who show up every day to make our economy work deserve better.
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The Partnership for Basic Needs is a coordinated alliance of national, state, and local groups fighting to block cuts to programs that support families struggling to meet their basic needs. Visit the homepage for more resources.
Thousands of Mainers are living without health insurance since premiums skyrocketed
At the start of this year, Rachel Phipps, a 64-year-old retired social worker, decided to forego her health insurance. After Congress failed to extend pandemic-era tax credits, her household’s monthly premium increased from $200 per month to more than $2,800.
Trump says millions are ‘lifted’ off SNAP. A Charlotte nonprofit says hunger hasn’t gone away in NC
Boxes and tractor trailers loaded with donated food move quickly through volunteers’ hands inside a Charlotte warehouse where frozen meat, fresh produce, and cartons of eggs are distributed when they’re available. This is where families come when groceries run out—sooner than later.
How state lawmakers are trying fill gaps left by federal changes to food assistance
When Kasey McBlais, a single mother of two, renewed her federal food assistance benefits for the year, she found the monthly amount inexplicably reduced from $600 to $359. Due to the Trump administration’s changes to SNAP, thousands of Mainers like McBlais are seeing disruptions in their benefits.
