KIDS COUNT: Latest data show pre-pandemic progress – with some setbacks – for U.S. children
June 24, 2020
Prison gerrymandering and (mis)representation: More evidence of systemic racism that needs to be dismantled
June 23, 2020
KIDS COUNT: Latest data show pre-pandemic progress – with some setbacks – for U.S. children
June 24, 2020
Prison gerrymandering and (mis)representation: More evidence of systemic racism that needs to be dismantled
June 23, 2020
Human Needs Report: President’s FY16 Budget Request Paves Road for Needed Investments
Joanna Sandager,
February 10, 2015
This week the Coalition on Human Needs released a special edition of the Human Needs Report analyzing the President’s FY2016 budget request. The report provides an overview of the White House budget with sections on taxes, revenues, and select departmental funding that most directly impact low-income and other disadvantaged populations. The...
Keep Raising Your Voice with #StopTheCuts
Joanna Sandager,
February 4, 2015
Yesterday we partnered with MomsRising.org, MoveOn.org and more than 20 other organizations for a Twitterstorm telling Congress to #StopTheCuts to critical human needs programs in the 2016 budget. With your help and action we got #StopTheCuts trending in DC on Twitter! From the benefits of SNAP to the need for...
Fact of the Week: We Can Reduce Child Poverty in America by 60 Percent Through an Investment Equal to Only 2 Percent of the Federal Budget
Deborah Weinstein,
February 2, 2015
“Child poverty is too expensive to continue.” That’s what Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman said in unveiling their new report, Ending Child Poverty Now. Remarkably, a dramatic reduction in child poverty is not too expensive to undertake. An increase of just 2 percent of the federal budget put...
Tell Congress it’s time to #StopTheCuts
Joanna Sandager,
January 30, 2015
This coming Monday the President will present his budget request to Congress for FY2016. We look forward to reviewing the President’s proposals, and we’ve already heard about important investments he’d make in child care and community college. We’ve heard he will start to reverse damaging cuts to human needs programs....
Head Smacker: McConnell and Boehner Address Income Inequality…But Not Really
Lecia Imbery,
January 28, 2015
On Sunday, the CBS news show 60 Minutes aired the first joint interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell since the new Republican majority Congress convened. The interview took place only days after last week’s State of the Union address, and Scott Pelley...
