Coalition on Human Needs: We will continue to oppose blank check funding and lawless actions by ICE and Border Patrol
June 10, 2026
Kids With Autism Deserve Care, Not Cuts
Kali Daugherty,
August 19, 2025
Editor’s note: Kali Daugherty serves on the Parent Advisory Board of the Automatic Benefits for Children Coalition and is a RESULTS Expert on Poverty. This op-ed was distributed by OtherWords.org. I recently read over my son’s last report card and was overwhelmed with pride. It showed how far he’s come...
When Care Becomes an Immigration Checkpoint, We All Lose
Dominique Espinoza,
August 15, 2025
Public Comment submitted to HHS
For nearly thirty years, there has been a shared understanding that programs keeping families healthy, safe, and learning should not be turned into tools to police immigration status.
Social Security at 90: Three Truths and A Terrible Trumpy Lie About One of America’s Greatest Economic Programs
Jessica Mason,
August 14, 2025
Blog post by NPWF, a member of CHN
Ninety years ago in a “terrifically hot Washington summer” much like this one, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating programs for unemployment insurance, retirement benefits and more.
Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine
Ta’Kyla Bates,
August 8, 2025
For generations, my family has lived in a rural Alabama county with just one community hospital, with 107 beds to service 60,000 people.
Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”
Lauren Rubenstein,
August 5, 2025
Blog post by FamilesUSA, a member of CHN
President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law
