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Human Needs Watch: Slashing Staff Means Less Help for People
April 1, 2025
The Trump Administration wants you to believe that massive cuts in staffing will have no effect on the services people need. The latest blockbuster announcement came from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who will lay off 10,000 workers, doubling the total terminated, one-quarter of…
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship | “Who Wins, Who Loses?” Edition.
November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024 The Who Wins? Who Loses? Edition. Exit polls on election day indicated that a majority of people with incomes from $30,000 to $100,000 voted for President-Elect Trump, and that voters choosing Trump were looking for someone who would make “needed change.” Looking at the Trump proposals so…
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Vote for Human Needs, October 21, 2024
October 21, 2024
The Vote for Human Needs edition.  Democracy is under attack and CHN is fighting back. New, restrictive voter ID laws have been enacted in state after state. Many states are shortening the time we have to vote, or making it more difficult to have our votes counted. Often, the brunt…
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, September 30, 2024
September 30, 2024
September 30, 2024  The Census edition. There’s a lot to report with the Census Bureau in recent weeks and we want to walk you quickly through the numbers. The brief glimpse: bad news on poverty, good news on health care, good news on income.  The bad news: The Child Tax…

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