Deadline for Telling the Commerce Department to Junk its Census Citizenship Question is Tuesday, August 7
Deborah Weinstein,
August 3, 2018
You can file comments online here, and your voice is needed to make sure everyone is counted. The Coalition on Human Needs submitted comments today to the Commerce Department voicing our strong opposition to the inclusion of a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census. Such a question, as the...
Journeys: Timely New Book Examines Immigrants’ Stories
CHN,
August 3, 2018
Editor’s note: The following blog post is authored by CHN intern Paige Brigham, a rising senior at Allegheny College. The story of Ahmed Ahmed began in his home country of Somalia, where his father worked his way out of poverty to provide a comfortable life for a family of ten....
Zero Tolerance at the Border a Disaster for Families
Richelle Friedman,
August 2, 2018
At Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Reunification Efforts,” Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) minced no words. He said, “If families and children are going to be kept in federal custody they must be kept in facilities where they will be treated humanely, and with...
Trump Top Priorities
Deborah Weinstein,
July 31, 2018
Of course we know President Trump wants to build a border wall. Yesterday he threatened to shut down the government over funding for it. But that’s not his Administration’s only priority. Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin announced that they’re studying whether they can provide another $100 billion tax break...
Every person should count — and be counted.
David Elliot,
July 27, 2018
This week, 131 groups, including the Coalition on Human Needs, joined two lawsuits aimed at preventing the U.S. Commerce Department from including a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. The moves come as CHN, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and a broad host of other grassroots, advocacy,...
