Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog unveils CHN's brand-new Podcast. And we launch a five-part series that examines how the pandemic has affected America's children, youth, and young adults. Finally, we unveil the latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, a by-the-numbers glance at how the pandemic is affecting people with low incomes and other vulnerable populations. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
Podcast Episode 1: Raising the federal minimum wage
May 27
In this first episode of the new Voices for Human Needs Podcast, we talk all about the work of activists fighting to raise the federal minimum wage. Listeners will hear more about the history of the federal minimum, and subminimum wages, the top line impacts of the Raise the Wage Act, the disproportionate impacts of a low federal minimum wage on women workers and BIPOC workers, and what listeners can do to organize their communities on behalf of a raised federal minimum wage. READ MORE »
The long-term impact of COVID-19: Assessing the pandemic's youngest victims
May 24
Possibly the broadest impact of COVID-19 lies in its economic ramifications. From the effect of lockdowns on labor practices and employment to the loss of community supports and services that require in-person attention, the pandemic pushed apart cracks in a faltering social safety net in America. As more households fall into poverty, children have become one of the pandemic’s biggest victims. Beginning today, a new Voices for Human Needs series of blog posts will highlight how the pandemic has harmed children and families in poverty, focusing on children of all ages and how key risk factors have evolved in the age of COVID-19. READ MORE »
COVID-19 and children: An ongoing nutrition crisis
May 26
When COVID-19 struck, hunger among children increased sharply. By March of this year, up to 8.8 million children lived in households reporting that their children did not have enough to eat in the past 7 days. Before the pandemic, in December of 2019, 1.1 million children were in households in which children did not have enough to eat at some point in the previous 30 days. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
May 28
They don't care why you're out of work edition. So far, 24 states have announced they will terminate federal pandemic unemployment benefits sometime in June, months before they will expire. They don't seem to have tighter labor markets than the other states; J.P. Morgan analysts opine that "early ends to UI look tied to politics, not economics;" it turns out all of these states are headed by Republicans. This may force some people back to work in low-paying and even unsafe jobs. READ MORE »
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