Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog celebrates the resilience of low-income women who have become powerful advocates. And we warn of the danger of cutting funding to the IRS and detail what it would mean for our country. Finally, we release CHN's latest Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, which during this holiday season reports that yes, bipartisan is (slightly) alive and well in Congress. Happy holidays and please share!
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This week on the blog...
Celebrating the resilience of low-income women
December 22
It’s been a difficult few years for poor people in this country. Just a year after the pandemic era safety net expansion saw poverty fall to its lowest level on record, we saw a historic 60 percent increase as those programs expired. Women and children have been among the hardest hit. In 2022, the last year we have data for, at least 32 million women and children were living in poverty. Despite that hardship, I feel some hope. READ MORE »
Advocates warn of the cost of cutting IRS funding
December 21
The Coalition on Human Needs and more than 50 groups sent a letter to House and Senate leaders warning of proposed cuts to the IRS – cuts that would harm the agency’s ability to provide customer service and pursue wealthy tax cheats while actually increasing the nation’s deficit. READ MORE »
CHN's Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship
December 18
The bipartisanship edition. When many Americans view Congress these days, they see partisan gridlock. Yes, gridlock is painfully real on many issues, including the basic issues of how to fund government – and what to fund in government. Already there is talk of possible government shutdown(s) in January and February because more extremist members in the House are pushing back on topline spending levels passed as a part of the debt ceiling package with bipartisan support earlier this year. READ MORE »
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