How to break a Census
CHN,
June 8, 2018
Editor’s note: The following blog post is authored by CHN intern Paige Brigham, a rising senior at Allegheny College. The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice held a hearing Friday about the decision to include a question on citizenship in the 2020 Census. Secretary of Commerce...
Save the date! CHN Human Needs Hero Reception July 19th
CHN,
June 8, 2018
It’s been a roller coaster of a year and you’ve ridden with us the entire way. Together we’ve fought to defend important human needs programs, from SNAP to affordable housing to health care. And we’ve stood with immigrants and their families, women teaching us to resist and persist, young people...
Fact of the Week: Three-Quarters of states still have higher levels of need than before the Great Recession
Lecia Imbery,
June 6, 2018
Residents in 37 states and the District of Columbia were still experiencing higher levels of need in 2017 than they were in 2007, before the Great Recession. This is one of the findings in the latest edition of the Human Needs Index (HNI), a multidimensional measure of poverty conducted by...
Not in Our Name
Deborah Weinstein,
June 1, 2018
When a mother and child flee to an entry point along the U.S. border, seeking asylum from violence in their home country, they have endured threats to their lives. The U.S. has every right to investigate their claims, but it has long done so in accordance with national and international...
As hurricane season begins, a new death toll in Puerto Rico. And an island woefully unprepared for what may come.
David Elliot,
June 1, 2018
4,645. And counting. That’s the new number of estimated deaths of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico directly or indirectly linked to Hurricane Maria, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The new estimate is more than 70 times the official death toll of 64....
