Full House could vote for commission to force cuts in Social Security, Medicare, other critical human needs programs
January 19, 2024
This is not America as we know it
David Elliot,
June 13, 2018
Hundreds of activists and community organizers from across the United States rallied in Washington, D.C. Wednesday to protest the Trump Administration’s new policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at U.S. borders. Among the speakers was Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-WA, who is believed to be the only member of...
‘Puerto Rico wasn’t destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico was destroyed decades and decades ago.’
David Elliot,
June 12, 2018
Puerto Rico’s battered infrastructure has made it more difficult to deliver social services to those most in need, including impoverished women who are at risk of domestic violence and sexual assault. That’s the finding of Vilma González-Castro, a women’s rights and domestic violence activist who has worked to try to...
How to break a Census
CHN,
June 8, 2018
Editor’s note: The following blog post is authored by CHN intern Paige Brigham, a rising senior at Allegheny College. The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice held a hearing Friday about the decision to include a question on citizenship in the 2020 Census. Secretary of Commerce...
Save the date! CHN Human Needs Hero Reception July 19th
CHN,
June 8, 2018
It’s been a roller coaster of a year and you’ve ridden with us the entire way. Together we’ve fought to defend important human needs programs, from SNAP to affordable housing to health care. And we’ve stood with immigrants and their families, women teaching us to resist and persist, young people...
Fact of the Week: Three-Quarters of states still have higher levels of need than before the Great Recession
Lecia Imbery,
June 6, 2018
Residents in 37 states and the District of Columbia were still experiencing higher levels of need in 2017 than they were in 2007, before the Great Recession. This is one of the findings in the latest edition of the Human Needs Index (HNI), a multidimensional measure of poverty conducted by...
