Count All Kids
Deborah Stein,
October 20, 2023
CHN helps lead Count All Kids, a campaign to improve the count of young children in census data, and also advocates to improve how the census counts other communities where many members are missed, such as communities of color. When everyone in a community is counted, the community has more political power, more funding for programs that matter for kids, and better data to manage government programs.
Use What We’ve Learned to End Child Poverty
Olivia Golden,
October 17, 2023
Child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, children and their parents are now losing health care coverage, and child care programs across the country are at heightened risk of closure — all because successful pandemic-era policies have ended or are ending. That’s the bad news, and it is devastating. Yet in thinking about how to move forward, the good news matters just as much: that the nation enacted an extraordinary package of pro-child policies in the first place.
People don’t like to be played for suckers, and the Biden Administration is doing something about it
Deborah Weinstein,
October 11, 2023
The Biden Administration has been engaged in a comprehensive effort to reduce or eliminate junk fees. Working in tandem with the independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission, they are either persuading or requiring banks and other corporations to stop junk fees.
A wakeup call on poverty
CHN Staff,
October 6, 2023
This fall, the Census Bureau released new poverty data showing a stunning reversal in economic security over the course of last year. The findings included a record jump in the Supplemental Poverty Measure just one year after hitting a record low. Child poverty doubled.
Shutdown central.
David Elliot,
September 28, 2023
Editor's note: Many Americans believe that most federal workers live in or around Washington, D.C. In reality, federal workers live in every state in the country, every congressional district, and every U.S. territory. For example, the "red" states of Alabama, Utah, and West Virginia have a disproportionate number of federal workers, compared to the national average. This CHN blog post, published on January 17, 2019 during the longest shutdown in U.S. history, examines how communities in Huntsville, Alabama, Ogden, Utah, and Clarksville, West Virginia were affected.
