Red Alert
Rev. Donald Perryman,
April 11, 2016
This op-ed originally appeared in The Sojourner’s Truth in Toledo, Ohio. We have all seen or heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan: thousands of children and pregnant women have been exposed to lead poisoning after a series of questionable or, at best, very short-sighted decisions by various government...
Human Needs Report: Spending Bills Move, Corporate Tax Dodging, Emergency Funding and More
Lecia Imbery,
April 11, 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 budget and appropriations action in Congress, the Supreme Court’s decision affecting public sector unions, the Treasury Department’s actions to crack down on corporate tax dodging, and funding...
A campaign to broaden prosperity
James Abro,
April 7, 2016
2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign. As you may recall, the campaign was conceived by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1967 at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It evolved into a movement to bring together a diverse amalgam of the poor – Whites, Blacks, Hispanics...
Pfizer Update: The Tax Coalition That Could
David Elliot,
April 6, 2016
The good news just keeps coming. Yesterday we told you about new U.S. Treasury Department guidelines that would reduce the benefits and limit the number of companies that use the tax inversion loophole. These guidelines get at the tax-dodging strategies employed by Pfizer, which has been trying to dodge a...
Fact of the Week: Lower-Income Renters Spend Nearly Half of Income on Rent
Lecia Imbery,
April 6, 2016
Housing costs traditionally eat up a large portion of most Americans’ budgets. But for lower-income renters, rising housing costs mean even less money is left over to cover everything else. According to new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts, renters in the bottom third of the income spectrum spent close...
