Coalition on Human Needs: House Farm Bill is a cruel and inhumane blueprint for increasing hunger in America
May 21, 2024
A celebration of the Supreme Court decision in favor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by CHN’s Executive Director Deborah Weinstein
May 16, 2024
CHN’s Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, July 12, 2024
CHN Staff,
July 12, 2024
The (mis)appropriations Edition. The House Appropriations Committee has now passed all 12 of its appropriations bills. The picture is not pretty, but most of them face an unclear future.
Biden Administration finalizes new worker protections
Daniel Nicpon,
July 11, 2024
In April, Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard, and Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden hosted a White House event to announce new rules aimed at bolstering workers and providing growth to the American economy "from the bottom up and the middle out." One rule, which expands overtime protections for workers, took effect this month.
SNAP: ‘Our first line of defense against hunger’
David Elliot,
July 10, 2024
More than 1,400 groups are asking Congress to protect and strengthen the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of the Farm Bill. The groups are particularly concerned with a House GOP proposal that would adjust the Thrifty Food Plan that helps determine the size of monthly SNAP benefits. The adjustment, part of a Farm Bill that has passed the House Agriculture Committee, would result in cuts of nearly $30 billion over 10 years, and every SNAP recipient would be affected.
CHN member groups react to Supreme Court rulings attacking the power and authority of federal agencies
David Elliot,
July 3, 2024
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 40 years of jurisprudence when it weakened the ability of federal agencies to set policy and take actions to serve the public.
House Republicans release FY 2025 Census funding with 2 percent cut from 2024 levels
CHN Staff,
July 1, 2024
On June 25, House Republicans released the text of their proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) appropriations bill, which funds, among other things, the U.S. Census Bureau. The bill provides the Census Bureau with $1.354 billion—an amount that is well below both the agency’s FY 2024 funding level ($1.382 billion) and the Administration’s FY 2025 budget request ($1.6 billion).
