Full House could vote for commission to force cuts in Social Security, Medicare, other critical human needs programs
January 19, 2024
Human Needs Report: What actions the 114th Congress took – and didn’t – before heading home
Lecia Imbery,
December 20, 2016
CHN just released our latest edition of the Human Needs Report, our regular newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. This edition includes articles on the stopgap spending measure, aid that will finally flow to Flint, other actions the 114th Congress took – and didn’t – before...
Don’t agonize — Organize!
David Elliot,
December 20, 2016
Last week, some 1,400 people from across the country signed up for a CHN-sponsored webinar entitled, The New Congress: How It Plans to Cut and How to Fight Back. The webinar featured U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat who has led anti-hunger efforts in Congress; Ellen Teller, Director of...
Experts on Poverty Send Wave of Reality to the Media
Kristy Martino,
December 15, 2016
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on RESULTS’ blog on November 21. Advocacy of all kinds, including Letters to the Editor like those described below, will be critical in the coming year. That’s why we hope you’ll join us on Friday, Dec. 16 at 12pm ET for a webinar on...
A positive response to the Bannon-Trump White House, the Destructive Disposition of his Cabinet members and the dangerous choices being considered by Congress
Kenan Heise,
December 13, 2016
Editor’s note: We are pleased and grateful to post this call to action by Kenan Heise, a Chicago journalist who has for decades illuminated the lives of poor people in his morally powerful writings. He has written for the Chicago Tribune and other major daily papers; he founded the “The Neediest...
The New Congress: How it Plans to Cut…And How to Fight Back
Lecia Imbery,
December 8, 2016
The Affordable Care Act. Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, SSI. Tax rates for the wealthy and corporations. The new Congress wants to repeal, restrict and/or cut all of these. How will they use their rules to try to carry all this out? And how will Senators who oppose these goals try to...
