COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS

CHN supports access to safe and affordable bank accounts, prepaid cards, mobile payments, electronic payments, remittance services and other transaction products and services, including through public institutions like the Postal Service.

CHN supports additional funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).

CHN supports an increase in revenues from fair and progressive sources. CHN supports expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit including expanded eligibility to those 19 and older and increased the value of the credit for workers who are not custodial parents. CHN supports expanding the Child Tax Credit to make the credit fully refundable and increases the value of the credit, while restoring access to families who file with ITINs. CHN supports reversing tax breaks to corporations and wealthy individuals in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, 2017, and other changes to increase revenue and make the tax code more progressive. Those changes on the corporate side include raising the corporate tax rate to 28%; imposing a minimum tax rate on corporate offshore profits and profits reported to investors; ending tax breaks for fossil fuel production; ending deductions for offshoring jobs and credit expenses; and eliminating tax break for shifting intellectual property offshore. Changes on the individual side include returning the top rate to 39.6%; taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income; and ending stepped-up basis for estates. CHN supports an increase in funding for the IRS to strengthen its capacity to collect taxes. CHN supports calls for a financial transaction tax.

CHN supports expanding full access to all workforce development programs and services authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and the National Apprenticeship Act to undocumented immigrant workers and reaffirming access for DACA recipients, TPS recipients, and all other new Americans. CHN supports greater alignment of workforce development, postsecondary, and human services programs, including child care assistance, to create pathways to marketable postsecondary credentials and economic security for adults with low incomes and opportunity youth. CHN supports the development of one or more official measures of the income needed to reach a decent living standard that provides for the maintenance of health and social well-being, childrens care and development, and social participation, and that is substantially above both the supplemental poverty line and the outmoded official poverty line.

CHN supports fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as well as fully funding ESEAs Title I program to support underserved students. The Coalition on Human Needs supports the reauthorization passage of legislation that provides funding and policy mechanisms to achieve an ambitious, transformative overhaul of existing systems to achieve child care and early learning for all. Such legislation would fairly compensate the educators doing this essential work, provide high-quality care for all children, and make early education and care affordable and accessible for all families. CHN supports substantial dedicated funding to stabilize the child care sector, which should be sufficient to ensure providers can recruit and retain staff and that parents can afford care. CHN supports substantially increasing funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant and increased funding for early childhood programs including Early Head Start, Head Start, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Infants and Toddlers and Preschool Programs, and other programs that give young children what they need to thrive as a downpayment on the transformative vision to build a comprehensive child care and early learning system for all. CHN supports investments in afterschool and summer programs to help prevent children from losing important educational gains while away from school and to enable parents to work.