More than 250 Organizations Urge the House to Prioritize Children’s Safety in FY26 DHS Appropriations Vote
March 5, 2026
The REAL State of the Union: Soaring Gains at the Top; Struggles to Meet Basic Needs for Millions
February 24, 2026
More than 250 Organizations Urge the House to Prioritize Children’s Safety in FY26 DHS Appropriations Vote
March 5, 2026
The REAL State of the Union: Soaring Gains at the Top; Struggles to Meet Basic Needs for Millions
February 24, 2026
Will you be smacking your head on November 5?
Deborah Weinstein,
October 29, 2014
I can’t tell you who to vote for on November 4. The Coalition on Human Needs is a nonprofit group, and we’re not allowed to weigh in on candidates. But we are allowed to encourage everyone to get out and vote. If you’re reading this, you are almost certainly well...
Death and Taxes: Inevitable for All?
Deborah Weinstein,
October 27, 2014
Considering being very rich? It has a lot of advantages. Even those two things said to be inevitable – death and taxes – can be stalled, if not evaded altogether. Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published a paper this month documenting that widening inequality is not just a matter...
Yellen Makes the Case for Reducing Inequality
Leo Nguyen,
October 24, 2014
“The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concerns me. The past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century after more than 40 years of narrowing inequality following the Great Depression. By some estimates, income and wealth inequality...
Child Care Centers and the Quality Improvement Catch-22
Carol Burnett,
October 23, 2014
This post was originally published on the Half in Ten Education Fund’s TalkPoverty blog on October 22. Quality, affordable child care is not only right and necessary to prepare children to learn; it’s also needed if low-income working parents are to have a shot at working their way out of poverty....
Fact of the Week: The Most Effective Anti-Poverty Programs for Children
Leo Nguyen,
October 22, 2014
Children remain the age group most disproportionately poor in our country – roughly one out of five children in the U.S. is poor – and the statistics are far worse for children of color and children in cities, where the numbers are closer to one out of three. We know...
