It’s been a painful year, with harsh cuts to health care and nutrition programs enacted, lawless attacks on immigrants, firings of federal workers, etc. Well, we’re not thankful for any of that.
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Fighting Back Against Efforts to Gut SNAP, Our Most Effective Anti-Hunger Program
The holiday season is approaching, and as many people are sitting around family tables sharing a special meal, millions of Americans are struggling to afford enough food. While the shutdown may be over, cuts made to SNAP in Republicans’ Big Brutal Budget are the largest in the program’s history―$187 billion over 10 years
Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities
Children with disabilities have been left behind for far too long by existing federal policy, and these recent changes further harm them at a time when policymakers should be dedicating more resources to their development.
Expanding Health Savings Accounts Would Do Little to Improve Access to Affordable Health Care
HSAs don’t improve health care affordability and would not offset the loss of coverage if Congress allows the PTC enhancements to expire. Most people do not have spare cash to set aside in HSAs; an estimated 4 in 10 people are in debt due to medical and dental bills.
Coalition on Human Needs Seeks its Next Executive Director
After more than two decades, Deborah Weinstein, the Coalition on Human Needs’ (CHN) executive director, plans to step down from this role at the end of June, 2026. Founded in 1981, CHN is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income…
Failing to Protect People Who Need Health Care is Unacceptable: The Coalition on Human Needs Tells Congress to Vote NO.
If the House of Representatives enacts a continuing appropriations bill that takes no action to prevent unaffordable increases in health insurance costs, it will be an immense failure to respond to their constituents’ urgent needs. Millions of people will be forced to discontinue their health coverage. Millions more will have to pay huge increases in premiums, threatening their ability to pay for their other basic needs. With open enrollment in place around the country, more than 20 million people who depend on Affordable Care Act’s marketplace coverage are deciding right now, and millions are seeing that their premiums will at least double. Failing to protect them is unacceptable.
CHN to House: Address Rising Health Costs, Oppose the November Spending Package
CHN urges Representatives to vote NO on the spending package (H.R. 5371) expected on the House floor this week given that it does not rein in skyrocketing health costs by including provisions to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits and protect vital health programs. The need to prevent the ACA enhanced credits from expiring is urgent and every day Congress delays action means more people will become uninsured as they despair over unaffordable premium increases. Congress must also protect Congressionally approved funds from being frozen or rescinded by the administration, and calls of Congress to come together on a bipartisan basis to end the shutdown by addressing these issues.
The Price of Cruelty: How Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Endangers Us All
In addition to this immediate pain to those whose families are being torn apart, the Trump administration’s immigration agenda directly harms our collective economy, health, and safety as a nation. This commentary reviews the harm thus far to our country, as the administration pursues its mindless ambitions.
Health Care and Food: How the Trump Administration is Continuing to Hurt People by Raising the Cost of Necessities to Unaffordable Levels – And How to Fight Back
Trump and minions have used the government shutdown to intensify the hurt. This is the time to make sure that every representative and senator know how much constituents want the harm to stop — and here are tools to help you make noise.
More than 40 million people are left in limbo as administration refuses to fully fund SNAP – CHN and partners speak out
The Coalition on Human Needs and our partners are deeply concerned that millions of families won’t get their full SNAP benefits this month. This political posturing is causing direct harm to tens of millions of people, especially children, older adults, and people with disabilities, in every state and Congressional District. In this post, we share resources from our members and partners, calling on policymakers to fully fund SNAP this month and prioritize anti-hunger policies.
Main Street Hardships: Small Business Owners Speak Out as the GOP Attempts Healthcare Heist
Small business owners are sounding the alarm as Congress lets the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) edge toward expiration with no alternative in place — a change that could raise health costs for millions and force many small business owners to make difficult choices about their operations, their employees’ health insurance, and even their own coverage.
Billionaire Wealth Tops $8 Trillion Amid Federal Shutdown
Republican tax cuts boost their fortunes to dizzying heights even as workers lose paychecks & families are denied services