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Resources from around the Coalition: FY18 budget priorities edition
CHN,
July 17, 2017
Editor’s note: The following blog post was written by Raquel Douglas, CHN’s Summer 2017 intern. One in four renter households unable to afford rent. Billions of dollars in cuts proposed to SNAP, rental assistance programs, job training grants, and a plethora of other programs vital to the quality of life of...
GOP budget would cause irreparable damage – but there is a way out
Deborah Weinstein,
July 14, 2017
Editor’s note: The following op-ed by CHN Executive Director Deborah Weinstein appeared in The Hill Friday, July 14. Earlier this week, more than 1,500 local, state and national groups delivered a letter to Congress urging members to avoid draconian cuts in the fiscal year 2018 budget proposal advancing in the House. These...
Latest Version of Senate Health Care Bill Fundamentally the Same as Previous Versions
Families USA,
July 14, 2017
Editor’s note: This piece was written by Families USA’s Eliot Fishman, Senior Director of Health Policy, Dee Mahan, Director of Medicaid Initiatives, and Lydia Mitts, Associate Director of Affordability Initiatives. It was originally posted on Families USA’s blog on July 14. For more information, see this full analysis from Families...
Celebrate these heroes
Leo Nguyen,
July 13, 2017
On Tuesday, July 25, at 5:30pm, the Coalition on Human Needs will host our Human Needs Hero reception in Washington, DC. This is our only fundraiser of the year, and your support enables CHN to provide resources such as the Voices for Human Needs blog you are reading right now. This year CHN...
Working together to keep Congress’s #HandsOff
Leo Nguyen,
July 12, 2017
At the Coalition, we know the importance of working together and fighting for what’s right with one voice. The past few months have proven this to be true now more than ever. Marches and rallies in support of women’s rights, climate action, Medicaid and more, both here in D.C. and...
