Human Needs Watch: Slashing Staff Means Less Help for People
Deborah Weinstein,
April 1, 2025
The Trump Administration wants you to believe that massive cuts in staffing will have no effect on the services people need. It does.
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship | “Who Wins, Who Loses?” Edition.
CHN Staff,
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
CHN Staff,
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 of this oppression falls on people of color, students, the elderly, or first-time voters.
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, September 30, 2024
CHN Staff,
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.
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, August 2, 2024
CHN Staff,
August 2, 2024
The compare and contrast edition. This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee all but completed marking up its 12 appropriations bills – it has one left to go (Homeland Security), which they plan to finish when members return after the August recess. House appropriators completed their 12 mark-ups last month, but their bills are going nowhere fast.
