Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM

BREAKING: Congress could be just days away from voting to expand the Child Tax Credit and needs to hear from you

A bill to improve the Child Tax Credit has passed out of committee and goes to the full House for a vote. John, The House has passed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act out of committee and it now goes to the full House for a vote as soon as next…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 24, 2024 at 4:21 PM

Seeking asylum is a human right

We’re demanding Congress reject permanent changes to immigration law that harm families and communities. John, Right now, Congress is negotiating permanent changes that would end protections for desperate people legally seeking asylum. But expelling people with n…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 22, 2024 at 10:02 PM

Tell Congress: No asylum bans!

The right to asylum is a measure of our commitment to human rights and dignity. John, Congress is negotiating permanent changes to our immigration laws that would end asylum as we know it, expedite removal of immigrants, and increase family detention―with potenti…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM

If Congress was serious about our national debt, they’d fully fund the IRS

By fully funding the IRS, we can start to address both income and racial inequity. John, Conservatives in Congress, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, have made implementing their so-called fiscal commis…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM

BREAKING: Threat to Social Security grows as Fiscal Commission bill goes to House floor for a vote

House extremists want to cut Social Security in secret. John, The legislation that would create a secretive fiscal commission that would put the funding of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs at stake has passed out of the Hous…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog reports on a House Republican plan that could result in cuts to Social Security and Medicare -- and much more. Plus, in case yo…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 18, 2024 at 8:12 PM

BREAKING: commission leading to cuts to Social Security passes House Budget Committee

A fiscal commission could have devastating consequences. John, Today the House Budget Committee voted to advance their bill to create a fiscal commission, which would pave the way for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and more behind closed doors…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 17, 2024 at 10:11 PM

House Committee Vote TOMORROW: Stop the so-called “fiscal commission” that would cut Social Security, Medicare, and more

John, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington have made quite clear their desire to enact deep cuts to human needs programs―and to create a fiscal commission that would cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and more b…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 16, 2024 at 9:08 PM

Re: BREAKING: Congress negotiating on Child Tax Credit expansion

Congress has the chance to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. John, 400,000. That’s the number of children who will be lifted out of poverty if Congress negotiates and passes a new expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) included in a bipartisan tax …

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM

BREAKING: Congress negotiating on Child Tax Credit expansion

Congress has the chance to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. John, There are at least 19 million reasons to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC)―that’s the number of kids who do not receive the full credit (or any credit) because their families …

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 14, 2024 at 4:40 PM

Re: BREAKING: An expanded Child Tax Credit is within reach!

Thank you for powering our lobbying efforts at a time of increased need for children and families. John, Under the current Child Tax Credit (CTC), 19 million children do not receive the full tax credit or receive no tax credit at all. This includes nearly half of…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 13, 2024 at 9:46 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog comments on the agreement between House and Senate leaders on top-line FY24 spending levels. And we report on a massive sign-on…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM

CHN's Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship

Tracking Hardship – January 13, 2023 The Child Tax Credit expansion edition. House and Senate negotiators reportedly are close to reaching a deal on expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC), although final detai…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM

This is our best chance to reduce childhood poverty this year

Thank you for powering our lobbying efforts at a time of increased need for children and families. John, House and Senate negotiators are reportedly close to reaching a deal on expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC). Right now, 19 million children in low-income f…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 12, 2024 at 6:47 PM

If Congress doesn’t act, millions of women and young children will miss out on critical nutrition programs

If Congress doesn’t act ASAP, 2 million could be turned away from WIC. John, If Congress doesn’t act fast, millions of mothers and young children will lose essential food assistance. Just look at this New York Times headline from this week: The Supplemental N…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 10, 2024 at 8:46 PM

If Congress doesn’t act, 2 million women and young children will go hungry

Access to WIC is directly correlated to improved cognitive function and overall health in young children. John, When Congress passed a stop-gap spending bill to continue funding some government programs through January 19, 2024, there was a huge omission: they di…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 9, 2024 at 9:22 PM

Tell Congress: Don’t sacrifice immigrant communities in must-pass legislation

Right-wing Republicans are threatening to shut down the federal government if Congress won’t pass their extreme anti-immigration policies. John, Congress has 10 calendar days left to pass a budget and avoid a partial government shutdown. While the clock is tickin…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 8, 2024 at 11:12 PM

RE: Fight back against House extremists’ War on the Poor

Congress has less than two weeks to avoid a government shutdown, but right-wing extremists are demanding $70 billion in cuts to human needs programs. John, You might have seen the press reports about the spending framework agreed to by Congressional leaders late …

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 7, 2024 at 3:22 PM

No more cuts to programs people need to survive

Congress has less than two weeks to avoid a government shutdown, but right-wing extremists are demanding $70 billion in cuts to human needs programs. John, Some things weren’t left behind in 2023 because, once again, the federal government is on the brink of anot…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM

Re: Congress must address our affordable housing crisis—not make it worse

Congress returns on Monday, January 8th. They must make fully funding housing assistance programs a top priority. John, Everyone deserves affordable, accessible, stable housing and in order to reach this goal, our federal government must invest in—not cut—critica…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 5, 2024 at 10:54 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog examines the need to boost funding in the upcoming budget talks to fight substance use disorder. Plus -- in case you missed it …

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 5, 2024 at 6:32 PM

Housing is a human right.

Congress returns on Monday, January 8th. They must make fully funding housing assistance programs a top priority. John, Congress has underfunded housing and homelessness resources for decades and now after dramatic increases in housing costs and price gouging by …

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM

Re: [TAKE ACTION]: Support the EPA’s proposed rule to get lead out of our drinking water

Add your voice in support by submitting a public comment on the EPA’s proposed rule around lead water pipes. John, The impacts of lead poisoning are not felt equally—with communities of color, low-income communities, and rural communities affected disproportionat…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

January 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM

Access to safe drinking water is a human right

Add your voice in support by submitting a public comment on the EPA’s proposed rule around lead water pipes. John, We have a public health crisis—and an opportunity to do something about it. Low levels of lead exposure in drinking water have been linked to learni…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 31, 2023 at 4:01 PM

Re: There’s so much at stake in 2024

We wish you a happy holiday season and New Year. John, When Congress comes back to work, they will have less than 3 weeks to pass full-year appropriations bills, or risk a government shutdown. There’s talk that House Speaker Mike Johnson might push ahead with a …

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM

There’s so much at stake in 2024

We wish you a happy holiday season and New Year. John, 2023 was one for the books. We kicked off with the longest election for Speaker of the House since 1859, narrowly avoided a debt ceiling catastrophe, witnessed the House vote to remove its Speaker for the fir…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 28, 2023 at 7:36 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog looks back on the good, the bad, and the ugly that was 2023. Stay tuned for our updates in early 2024 -- there will be urgent o…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 28, 2023 at 4:38 PM

Over 2 million mothers, infants and children could lose nutritional support if Congress doesn’t act in January

For 25 years, funding increases to WIC have passed with bipartisan support. John, Back in November, Congress passed a stop-gap spending bill to continue funding some government programs through January 19, 2024, but there’s a huge omission: they did not include a…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 27, 2023 at 3:59 PM

Re: The billionaire class and the powerful corporations must finally pay their fair share in taxes

Your activism on behalf of children, families, seniors, and working people is what drives change―because change never happens from the top down; it only happens from the bottom up. John, The U.S. economy is at a tipping point with more and more wealth going to th…

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  Bernie Sanders via Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 26, 2023 at 4:55 PM

It's time for a government that works for working people, not just a handful of billionaires and large corporations.

Your activism on behalf of children, families, seniors, and working people is what drives change―because change never happens from the top down; it only happens from the bottom up. John, In just a minute, I'm going to ask you to make a donation of $5 or anything …

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 23, 2023 at 6:08 PM

Re: Instead of cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, we need the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes

What the right wing won’t admit publicly is that this fiscal commission is not really about our nation’s debt. John, We’re less than one month from a potential government shutdown. And right-wing members of the House―including Speaker Mike Johnson and Budget Comm…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 22, 2023 at 9:41 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog 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 …

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 22, 2023 at 3:42 PM

Right wing demands of a closed-door commission are a threat to Social Security

What the right wing won’t admit publicly is that this fiscal commission is not really about our nation’s debt. John, Earlier this month, House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington held his first hearing on a proposed “fiscal commission,” which seeks to cut tril…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 21, 2023 at 4:03 PM

Re: Tell Congress to stand firm against Speaker Johnson’s plans to cut Social Security

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to fast-track a secretive plan to cut Social Security and Medicare. We cannot allow that to happen. John, Right-wing extremists in the House of Representatives want to cut funding for Social Security, Medicare, and other essential…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 20, 2023 at 3:25 PM

Tell Congress to stand firm against Speaker Johnson’s plans to cut Social Security

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to fast-track a secretive plan to cut Social Security and Medicare. We cannot allow that to happen. John, The House of Representatives has adjourned for the remainder of the year, but when they get back, they’ll have less than thr…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 19, 2023 at 5:31 PM

Re: President Biden must nominate two forward thinking candidates to the USPS Board of Governors now

President Biden must nominate strong candidates to the USPS Board of Governors to hold DeJoy accountable. John, Only the USPS Board of Governors can hold Postmaster General Louis DeJoy accountable for his numerous failings, conflicts of interest, attempts to obst…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 18, 2023 at 10:48 PM

[TAKE ACTION]: Tell President Biden to nominate two new members of the USPS Board of Governors

President Biden must nominate strong candidates to the USPS Board of Governors to hold DeJoy accountable. John, We are two years into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10 year plan to privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS) and things are going about as …

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 18, 2023 at 10:01 PM

CHN's Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship

Tracking Hardship – December 18, 2023 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…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 17, 2023 at 3:35 PM

Re: [TAKE ACTION]: Tell Congress to reject extremist, anti-immigration policies

Congress is negotiating a package that could include the revival of Trump-era anti-immigration policies. John, Congress is currently negotiating a package of extreme anti-immigration proposals that would wreak chaos and pain on immigrant communities and rip famil…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 16, 2023 at 3:58 PM

30,000 children aged 3 and under were expelled due to Title 42. We cannot bring that failed policy back

Congress is negotiating a package that could include the revival of Trump-era anti-immigration policies. John, Congress and the White House are seriously considering proposals that would revive Trump-era immigration policies like restricting asylum, expanding exp…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 15, 2023 at 10:10 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog raises the alarm concerning negotiations that could result in permanent and substantial changes to our border policy -- changes…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 15, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Re: Billionaires aren’t paying their fair share

By an overwhelming margin, the American people support taxing the wealth gains of those at the very top. John, Just in the last two weeks, Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced two bills that would tax the wealth gains of billionaires and ultra-millio…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 14, 2023 at 9:03 PM

Instead of cuts to critical programs, we should be taxing the wealth gains of billionaires

By an overwhelming margin, the American people support taxing the wealth gains of those at the very top. John, As Congress negotiates a full-year 2024 spending agreement, conservatives like to claim that we can’t afford investments that lift up vulnerable familie…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 13, 2023 at 4:30 PM

[take action] Demand Congress pass the Billionaires Income Tax

From 2018 – 2022, America’s 741 billionaires saw their wealth skyrocket by an astounding $2.3 trillion. John, Did you know that in some years, billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay $0 in federal income taxes, even as their fortunes soar?1 That starves t…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 12, 2023 at 8:46 PM

BREAKING: House Speaker threatens across-the-board cuts

Human needs programs will be cut an average of 9 percent if Congress doesn’t come together and pass a bipartisan budget. John, We’re a few weeks out from the New Year and we still don’t have full-year 2024 federal spending bills. Congress only has until January …

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 10, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Re: John + CHN vs. corporate lobbyists

John, Congress is under massive pressure to pass a tax bill soon—and corporate tax lobbyists want nothing more than a multi-billion dollar giveaway to major corporations. It’s not right and it’s not fair. At a time of massive corporate profits combined with corp…

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  Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 9, 2023 at 5:29 PM

From CHN: This week on our Voices for Human Needs Blog

In case you missed it... This week on CHN's Voices for Human Needs blog Dear John, In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog explains why an antiquated SSI policy cruelly prevents beneficiaries from saving money -- either for emergencies or for their r…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 9, 2023 at 3:27 PM

Our children deserve better

John, Congress is under massive pressure by Wall Street lobbyists to pass a corporate tax package in the coming weeks that would pad the pockets of wealthy CEOs and shareholders while costing U.S. taxpayers billions. Corporate lobbyists are swarming Congressiona…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 8, 2023 at 6:06 PM

Re: [TAKE ACTION]: Demand no corporate tax breaks without the expanded Child Tax Credit

Congress may be close to finalizing a tax package that could help families make ends meet. John, Congress needs to hear from us. As they’re negotiating the details of a potential December or January tax package, we need to be loud and clear that it must prioritiz…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

December 7, 2023 at 7:14 PM

Business tax breaks vs. expanded Child Tax Credit

Congress may be close to finalizing a tax package that could help families make ends meet. John, In 2021, families received monthly checks of between $250 and $300 per child, assisting 36 million families across the country. But, because of obstruction in the U.S…

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