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Fact of the Week: Nearly 70 percent of critical human needs programs have...
Afterschool programs for children cut by nearly 10 percent. Juvenile justice programs cut by more than 40 percent. Housing for the elderly cut by 28 percent; housing for people with disabilities cut by...
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How the House’s SNAP cuts would hurt children
The House is likely to vote as soon as next week on the Farm Bill, legislation that includes the reauthorization of SNAP/food stamps. Despite historically being a bipartisan bill, the version put forth...
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Supreme Court decision benefits corporations at the expense of workers
“[T]he Supreme Court has dramatically tilted the legal system against the working people, paving the way for corporations to break workplace laws with impunity. … Every American needs to know that the...
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The Human Needs Report: House Labor-H bill, migrant family amendments, a...
CHN just released another edition of the Human Needs Report. Read on for the latest on the House Labor-H bill and other FY19 spending, migrant family separations, proposed SNAP cuts, reactions to the...
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Comment now to stop thousands from being kicked off Medicaid
If the Trump Administration and some state officials have their way, hundreds of thousands of low-income people could be kicked off Medicaid and left without any health insurance coverage. That’s...
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President Trump’s Labor Day contempt for workers
It’s Labor Day Weekend. President Trump has just ordered a pay freeze for federal workers to start in January. Although of course his action is particularly brazen coming just before a national...
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Fact of the Week: Drop in uninsured rates for low-income rural residents is...
The uninsured rate for low-income adults has decreased in the last several years across America, thanks in large part to the Affordable Care Act. But small towns and rural areas of states that have...
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How to Help Rural America: Senate Democrats Hold a Rural Summit
Senator Klobuchar (left) and Sarah Smarsh (right) Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jon Tester (D-MT) were interviewing author Sarah Smarsh at a Rural Summit held by Senate Democrats on September 27....
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Fact of the Week: Nearly 8,500 Arkansans have been kicked off Medicaid since...
More than 4,100 Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage on Oct. 1, adding to the more than 4,350 adults in the state who were kicked off the Medicaid roles on Sept. 1. These nearly 8,500 adults lost their...
View ArticleStanding united with the human needs community
Periodically, CHN embarks on an ambitious endeavor – to get thousands of organizations across the human needs community and across the country to join together to advocate for a stronger America that...
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