CHN Urges Members of the House of Representatives to Vote NO on the Reconciliation Proposal
May 21, 2025
Will Congress Take This Opportunity to Fight for Workers? The Reintroduction of the PRO Act
Fadima Tall,
March 23, 2023
“The union is not some third-party entity that makes decisions for people, the union is the workers.” This is what the vice president of a local union in Orlando, Florida told me the first time I met him as he recruited me to help the food service workers at my private college in a wealthy suburb of Orlando. Prior to meeting him, I knew nothing about unions and was in the dark about the way the college's food supplier treated its workers.
Advocates react to President Biden’s proposed asylum ban: ‘Our families deserve dignity and respect’
David Elliot,
March 22, 2023
At a recent rally near the base of the Washington Monument, immigrant advocates gathered to demand that the Biden Administration back off its plans to institute an asylum ban for many applicants as well as a possible return to the practice of family detention, frequently used during the Trump era.
CHN’s latest Human Needs Report: An in-depth look at President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal
Lecia Imbery,
March 20, 2023
CHN just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for a comprehensive look at President Biden's FY24 budget proposal.
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, March 17, 2023
CHN Staff,
March 17, 2023
The show us your budget edition. President Budget released his budget proposal last week. Broadly speaking, it is based on four values: lowering costs for families, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, investing in America, and reducing the deficit, all made possible by ensuring that the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay more of their fair share.
Much of Biden’s federal budget proposal is what we all need
Karen Dolan,
March 16, 2023
Biden’s commonsense budget proposal takes strong moves forward to level the grossly unequal economic playing field in this country. It shores up tattered programs for poor, low-income, and middle-income American families, no matter what we look like or where we live. As an expression of values, its proposals to invest in families and workers, protect Social Security and strengthen Medicare reflect the values of most of us.
