For generations, my family has lived in a rural Alabama county with just one community hospital, with 107 beds to service 60,000 people.
Trump’s Budget Will Devastate Health Care for Rural Families Like Mine
Archives: Voices
Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”
President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law
What New Federal Notices Mean for Immigrants’ Program Eligibility
Five federal agencies have issued notices reinterpreting which federal programs may be restricted to certain categories of immigrants. These notices illustrate the administration’s harmful willingness to undermine the well-being of families and communities to pursue its anti-immigrant agenda.
Celebrating Legal Justice Champions at CHN’s Human Needs Hero 2025
At a time when the executive branch has seized power to deny millions of our people health care, food, jobs with labor protections, affordable housing, education, contrary to our nation’s values and shockingly often contrary to law, we must all work together
The 60-Hour Vigil to Protect Medicaid
Medicaid saves lives. It provides the care that allows children with serious medical conditions to go to school and allows their parents to go to work. Requiring repeated reporting of work hours or exempt status will hurt people.
Letter from 584 Organizations in Support of Increased Allocation for the FY26 Labor-HHS-Education Bill
The programs and services funded by the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee have a profound impact on health and well-being, child development, educational and skills attainment, labor force participation, and economic productivity.
Coalition on Human Needs to Congress: Oppose the Rescissions Package
CHN urges the House and Senate to stand firm and not allow efforts to radically undermine Congress’ role in appropriating funds to support approved federal programs in ways that hurt people and communities across the country. We call on Congress to reject this rescissions package that enables the Administration’s attacks on important funding for communities, undermines the bipartisan appropriations process, and paves the way for further cuts to important programs at a time of our people’s increasing needs.
Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade
The centerpiece of the tax and spending bill that President Trump signed on July 4 is a significant tax cut for wealthy families, partly tacked onto the national debt and partly paid for with cuts to health care, climate investments, and other public services.
America First? No, Corporations First.
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.
The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich
Yesterday, the Senate passed a budget bill that will create a weaker and more unequal U.S. economy. It is even more radical than the House version, with deeper Medicaid cuts that will destroy rural hospitals and strain state budgets, while adding nearly $4 trillion to the federal deficit.
Power and Conscience: the Struggle is Not Over
Today’s action by Congress, and the tyrannous behavior of the Trump administration, are painful demonstrations that this struggle is not over.
The Real Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Why the Coalition on Human Needs Urges House Members to Reject H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill
The House of Representatives has the chance now to stop the reckless rush to enact this big and brutal piece of legislation.