2025 Poverty and Income Numbers Will Show How Affordability Crisis and H.R.1 Changes Drive Inequality
September 4, 2026
NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
September 1, 2026
2025 Poverty and Income Numbers Will Show How Affordability Crisis and H.R.1 Changes Drive Inequality
September 4, 2026
NEA President Becky Pringle: As They Return to School for the New Year, Students Should Not Have to Fear for Their Safety or that of Their Families
September 1, 2026
Fighting Back Against Efforts to Gut SNAP, Our Most Effective Anti-Hunger Program
Meredith Dodson,
November 21, 2025
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
Chad Bolt and Lily Klam,
November 19, 2025
Blog post by First Focus, a member of CHN
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
Nicole Rapfogel,
November 18, 2025
Blog post by CBPP, a member of CHN
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
CHN Staff,
November 13, 2025
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.
Deborah Weinstein,
November 12, 2025
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.
