In case you miss it, the Voices for Human Needs blog shared several timely pieces in the last week, including a few re-shares from our members and partners:
Instead of bipartisan legislation prioritizing investments in human needs, the Republican-led Congress rubber stamped the Trump administration's agenda. Even before the vote, the shutdown of our government had already begun. Trump's large scale cuts are their own form of a government shutdown and will impact every single person in the U.S. in drastic ways that will take decades to recover from. READ MORE »
The House-passed budget instructs the Agriculture Committee to cut spending by $230 billion over 10 years. There is no way to do that without taking most or all of this huge figure from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which serves over 40 million people. READ MORE »
I own my own salon, but as a small business owner I don’t make enough to meet my family’s significant health needs. So I was overjoyed to learn that I qualified for Medicaid.
Listen up lawmakers. We are hard-working people, making the world more beautiful and trying to get health care for our families. How do you justify taking that away just to line the pockets of billionaires? READ MORE »
The health of these millions of people, among the more than 70 million Americans who rely on Medicaid, is threatened by the record-breaking $880 billion or more in cuts called for in the House-passed budget resolution. READ MORE »
On March 12, CHN sent this letter to all Senators, asking them to reject the House-passed spending bill, which the Senate passed on March 12. This bill will harm people needing housing, education, and giving a blank check to the Trump Administration to slash staff and services relied upon by people with disabilities, children, older adults, and workers. READ MORE »
The Trump Administration’s plan to turn IRS agents into deportation agents will result in lower tax collections in addition to the harm done to the families and communities directly affected by deportations. The folks at the Institute for Taxation an Economic Policy explains why. FULL REPORT»
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