RSS Feed
Pfizer’s Tax Dodge and the Impllications for Human Needs
,
February 25, 2016

One hundred and sixty-six years after its founding in New York City, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies is about to renounce its American identity. But not its American profits. Pfizer, which makes the popular drugs Celebrex, Lipitor, Lyrica and Viagra, among others, wants to merge with fellow drug firm...

Fact of the Week: 85 Percent of Critical Human Needs Programs Have Lost Ground Since 2010
,
February 24, 2016

Out of the more than 160 programs tracked by CHN that assist low-income people, 139 saw funding cuts from FY2010 through FY2016 after taking inflation into account. But it wasn’t just inflation eroding the value of the funding. New research by CHN found that nearly half of the programs (67...

Sharon, Tamara, and Living on $2 a Day
,
February 18, 2016

Back in December we hosted a webinar featuring Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Schaefer, the authors of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, as well as a panel of experts on poverty: Sharon and Tamara, who have experienced abject poverty first-hand and survived to share their...

Health Care’s Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
,
February 17, 2016

This post was originally published by Washington Monthly on February 8, 2016.  Americans have a lot to gripe about when it comes to health care. But there is one very legitimate complaint: the rising cost of co-pays, deductibles, what individuals pay for insurance premiums, and other out-of-pocket (OOP) costs that has...

Human Needs Report: Special FY2017 Presidential Budget Request Edition
,
February 16, 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 special edition includes articles the President’s FY2017 budget request, a breakdown of the budget by select departments, and related tax policy analysis. See below for the full analysis and links...

RSS Feed