When the heroes of the civil rights movement persevered in their struggle, they did so against long odds, and knowing their victories would be long in the making. Women seeking the franchise fought for decades. They persisted in their cause because it was essential – and right. Our cause – ending…
Archives: Voices
A message to the fed up: Why you should vote
This is for you, advocates for meeting human needs who have been distressed and turned off by the tenor of the election campaigns nationwide: As previously noted, the Coalition on Human Needs has tax-exempt status, and cannot take positions on candidates. But we can encourage you to consider the positions…
Breaking the Cycle of Re-Incarceration with Education
Last week the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) hosted an event covering an important and often overlooked topic: reintegration to society after incarceration. Many attended in person or tuned in via webcast to hear the discussions on “Reconnecting Justice: Pathways to Effective Reentry through Education and Training,” the…
Sign the Voter Pledge
Editor’s note: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a member of CHN, has joined forces with other civil rights and voting organizations across the country to get out the vote. At CHN, we support these efforts, and know they are especially important in light of restrictive voter laws…
Outcomes: programs that work for human needs
As supporters of human needs programs, we know federal programs are essential and effective tools in the fight against poverty and inequality. Now we have new advocacy tools that help you show just how essential and effective these programs are: announcing CHN’s new Outcomes fact sheets. CHN’s new Outcomes sheets…
Four reasons why consumers will find affordable health insurance in the marketplaces
Editor’s note: With the press coverage and campaign rhetoric about increasing premiums in Affordable Care Act marketplace plans, we want you to see important facts, supplied by the health care experts at Families USA. Open enrollment in the marketplaces begins November 1. We all have to spread the word about that, and make…
Fact of the Week: Three in four extremely low income renters spend more than 50 percent of income on rent
Housing costs eat up an exorbitant amount of low-income families’ budgets. A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) shows that three-quarters of extremely low income (ELI) renter households, defined as earning no more than 30 percent of their area’s median income or the federal poverty guideline,…
The election, tax policy and the economy
Last Friday, we noted that some very important issues have not gotten much attention in this campaign season. We cannot tell you who to vote for – hence the silenced Head Smacker. But we can describe the Clinton and Trump tax proposals, and what the evidence says their impact is…
Head-Smacking in the Election Season
As you may know, the Coalition on Human Needs is the kind of tax-exempt organization that cannot take any positions on candidates for public office. While the campaign season has provided no shortage of opportunities for head-smacking, the best we can do for most of these is to urge you…
The state of poverty in your state
In the wake of the September release of the 2015 Census Bureau data on poverty, CHN put out a national report, The High Cost of Being Poor in the U.S., which detailed our findings on the state of poverty around the country and what measures helped pull people out of…
Closing the opportunity gap for our children
“Children remain more likely to be poor in America than any other age group, with nearly one in five in poverty in 2015. As with adults, children of color experience poverty at much higher rates that their white peers. In fact, African American and Latino children are roughly 2.5 times…
How 2 minutes of your time – today – can help millions
“Not long ago, Renee Bergeron—a single mother from Duluth, Minnesota—was between paychecks and took out a small payday loan to help cover her rent. Once her payday came around, Bergeron found—much to her dismay—that she was unable to pay her basic bills and also make her loan repayment. As a…