Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog reports on efforts to reach out to local, state, and national groups to try to avoid a government shutdown in one week. And we look back at the once-expanded Child Tax Credit and the important role the Supplemental Poverty Measure played in measuring its success. Finally, we examine new data that shows ten million Americans have been dropped from Medicaid -- despite the fact that most of the ten million remain eligible for this essential health care benefit. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
Your voice matters: CHN seeks help from local, state, and national groups to keep government running and protect human needs
November 10
The Coalition on Human Needs is asking local, state, and national groups to sign ?a letter asking Congress to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government open and running beyond Friday, November 17. If Congress fails to act by midnight next Friday, we will face a government shutdown. The deadline for signing is noon ET Monday, November 13. READ MORE ?
How the expanded Child Tax Credit reduced poverty -- why we need the Supplemental Policy Measure
November 9
Although children in all 50 states benefited from an expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC), new data show that the effect was most felt among rural, low-cost states, some of which experienced drops in child poverty by more than 50 percent when the CTC was temporarily expanded during the pandemic. The data found that during 2021, when the expansion was in effect, child poverty dropped the most in rural, low cost-of-living states such as Alabama (down 52.5%), Maine (down 52.2%), Missouri (down 51.5%) and Wyoming (down 51.7%). READ MORE
New report: Ten million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage. Many shouldn't have.
November 7
Ten million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage as states are deciding who should continue to receive benefits, and more than 70 percent of those who lost coverage did so because of bureaucratic hurdles such as missing paperwork, not because they were shown to be ineligible. ?It is likely that two-thirds of those who lost coverage became uninsured either briefly or for a longer period. ?More than half of those losing benefits are likely to be people of color. READ MORE ?
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