Full House could vote for commission to force cuts in Social Security, Medicare, other critical human needs programs
January 19, 2024
An affront to democracy
David Elliot,
January 10, 2018
During the last week of December, with the halls of the U.S. Capitol nearly empty and millions of Americans paying attention to anything but the news, word emerged that a Department of Justice official formally has asked the Census Bureau to add a question to the 2020 Census about respondents’...
Immoral and un-American: Immigrant communities deserve the opportunity to grow, thrive, invent and contribute
CHN,
January 9, 2018
Editor’s note: CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein issued the following statement Tuesday, Jan. 9 in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that it would end work authorization and legal protection for nearly 200,000 El Salvadorans living in the U.S.: “On Monday the Trump administration announced the latest step in its...
America’s deep freeze is no time to be stingy about heating homes of the poor
Mark Wolfe,
January 5, 2018
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by CNN on January 4. Low-income families struggle to pay their home energy bills in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. Record cold temperatures are bearing down along the East Coast and across the Midwest, and, based...
Cuts by any other name
David Elliot,
January 5, 2018
Over the holidays, Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, had an interesting op-ed published in the Washington Post. His New Year’s resolution to journalists and others: When talking about changes to the programs that make up our country’s safety net, do not say “reform”...
If our children are so ‘precious,’ we must invest in them
Andrew L. Yarrow,
January 3, 2018
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by the San Francisco Chronicle on December 23, 2017. We often hear how “precious” a child is, what a “treasure” she is, and how our kids are “our greatest resource.” Neuroscientists tell us that ages 0-3 are the most critical years for cognitive, social and...
