Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog reports on growing calls for an expanded Child Tax Credit. And we unveil CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, a by-the-numbers look at how the pandemic harms the most vulnerable people and communities. Please share!
.png)
This week on the blog...
Across the country, support is building for expanding the Child Tax Credit
October 26
Across the country, support is building for Congress to once again expand the Child Tax Credit, with an increasing number of local media outlets taking note of the growing rise in hunger among families with children since the additional CTC payments were halted last December. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
October 28
The invest in education edition. This week, the largest standardized test results in years came out, and we received another snapshot of just how far behind the pandemic has left many students. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) – the “nation’s report card” -- tested hundreds of thousands of fourth and eighth graders across the country. Reading scores are down and math scores plummeted by the largest margin in the history of the NAEP program, which began in 1969. READ MORE »
Coalition on Human Needs
www.chn.org
Connect with us!
