Tax Scam 2.0: Another measure that benefits the wealthy and campaign donors at the expense of working families
CHN,
September 28, 2018
Editor’s note: Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of the Coalition on Human Needs, issued the following statement Friday in response to House passage of a second massive tax cut that mostly benefits the wealthy and will explode the deficit: “The tax scam 2.0 passed today by the House is another measure...
How to Help Rural America: Senate Democrats Hold a Rural Summit
Deborah Weinstein,
September 28, 2018
Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jon Tester (D-MT) were interviewing author Sarah Smarsh at a Rural Summit held by Senate Democrats on September 27. Ms. Smarsh was describing the isolation she felt growing up poor in rural Kansas. Her mother was 17 when Sarah was born. There was no Family...
Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
David Elliot,
September 26, 2018
Anti-poverty advocates gathered in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as House Democrats convened a hearing on poverty in the U.S. The hearing came after the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival this summer called on Congress to convene a bipartisan hearing to focus attention on policies that have...
Fact of the Week: Drop in uninsured rates for low-income rural residents is three times larger in Medicaid expansion states
Lecia Imbery,
September 26, 2018
The uninsured rate for low-income adults has decreased in the last several years across America, thanks in large part to the Affordable Care Act. But small towns and rural areas of states that have expanded Medicaid have seen the sharpest decline in uninsured rates. That’s one of the findings of...
Trump’s Public Charge proposal: A ‘sicker, hungrier, poorer nation’
CHN,
September 24, 2018
Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of the Coalition on Human Needs, issued the following statement Monday in response to the Trump Administration’s proposed Department of Homeland Security Public Charge rule regarding immigrants: “The Trump Administration’s proposed Public Charge rule is the latest in a series of unconscionable attacks on immigrants and...
