Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog offers a first-person account of why President Biden's efforts on student debt relief are so important. And we unveil CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship. Finally, we invite you to join our upcoming annual webinar on U.S. Census Bureau data and how our nation has fared during the pandemic. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
Biden's student debt relief is a big deal
September 2
We’re told that higher education is one of the best ways to overcome poverty. But for many indebted borrowers, it’s been just the opposite. Since 1980, the cost of college has increased at nearly 9 times the rate of paychecks. If you’re poor and don’t join the military, land a full scholarship, or gain a mysterious wealthy benefactor, you have one option: borrowing against your future prospects. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
September 2
The back-to-school edition. Kids are returning to classrooms, but we find students, teachers, and schools themselves in a pandemic-related crisis. For students, the damage that has been done became more apparent than ever this past Thursday, September 1, when new data revealed just how big a hit students took academically during the pandemic’s first two years. New test results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “nation’s report card,” showed students of all income levels and ethnicities on average fared much worse in early 2022 than they did in early 2020, just before the pandemic. But students from families with low incomes and Black and Hispanic students fared even worse. READ MORE »
You're invited to CHN's upcoming webinar:
"PANDEMIC AND RESPONSE: Using Census and Other Data to Track Poverty, Hardship and the Impact of Aid During a Tumultuous Time."
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 01:30 PM ET
The Census Bureau will release new poverty, income and health insurance data on September 13-15. This data will cover the pandemic year of 2021, a year in which COVID cases surged early, plunged and then rose again by year’s end. How did people fare, and what differences were there by age, race/ethnicity, and income? Did the Child Tax Credit and other pandemic aid help? And while the survey data to be released in September only covers 2021, what other data is available to tell us about what is happening now?
Register for CHN's annual Census poverty data webinar here.
Expert speakers include:
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Shailly Barnes, Policy Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice
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Allison Bovell-Ammon, Director of Policy Strategy, Children’s HealthWatch
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Elise Gould, Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute
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Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
- An expert from the Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University
- Moderator: Indivar Dutta-Gupta, President & Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
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