Republican Senators are attempting to attach legislation to the next COVID-19 relief package that would pave the way for Social Security and Medicare to be gutted behind closed doors. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated on July 23 that Republican’s forthcoming COVID-19 relief package would include the Time to Rescue United States’ Trusts Act. […]

Over the past five months, the National Human Services Assembly has been tracking the legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic, through our policy newsletters and PolicySource. With the August Congressional recess just around the corner, followed by a stretch of campaigning before the November election, the next two weeks are likely the last chance in […]

By Adolph P. Falcón, National Alliance for Hispanic Health Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Carlos Ingram-Lopez. Killed by police and Floyd and Ingram-Lopez, in their last minutes of life calling out to breathe and then Floyd for his mother and Ingram-Lopez… “Nana, ayúdame.” While media has focused on the fury that followed, I’ve heard something else. […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, communities across the country are experiencing the traumatic effects of the resulting job losses, financial and housing insecurity, missed educational opportunities, social isolation, and grief. At the same time, recent manifestations of institutional and systemic racism, including police violence towards Black people and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities […]

By Denise Harlow, CEO of Community Action Partnership We are a nation and a sector galvanized toward change, to end racism, to jettison the hierarchy of human value base on race, to push back and tear down systemic and structural racism, and to ensure equity is at the core of our work. The global pandemic […]