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Community Voices: Telling Your Story of Nutrition Assistance
Lecia Imbery,
June 17, 2015
With Congress due to reauthorize child nutrition programs like WIC, school lunch and breakfast, summer meals and after school and child care feeding programs, we all have the opportunity to voice our concerns about threatening cuts to nutrition programs. One of the most powerful ways to protect these vital nutrition...
Human Needs Report: Appropriations, Immigration Reform and Family Detention Practices
Lecia Imbery,
June 15, 2015
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 ongoing appropriations process, immigration reform and family detention practices. See below for the full analysis and links to each section of the report....
Fact of the Week: Nearly Half of Americans Would Struggle with Unexpected Expense of $400
Lecia Imbery,
June 12, 2015
Forty-seven percent of Americans either could not cover an emergency expense costing $400 or would have to borrow money or sell something to cover it, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve System. The picture is bleaker for households with incomes under $40,000: over two-thirds of these households...
Resources from around the Coalition: Affordable Housing, Summer Meals, the Safety Net and More
Lecia Imbery,
June 10, 2015
Affordable housing. Summer meals. The effectiveness of the safety net. CHN’s coalition members are producing amazing work on really important topics. I wish I had time to cover each of them in-depth in their own blog post, but unfortunately, I don’t. Nevertheless, I wanted to make sure these important resources...
How You Can Help Stop Federal Budget Cuts
Lecia Imbery,
June 5, 2015
Last month, Congress passed a budget outline that calls for deep cuts to everything from housing to health care to Head Start. Now they are starting to fill in the specifics – specifics that would further increase poverty and inequality. As we hit the next stage of the budget battle, we...
