From Coalition on Human Needs: We Need a Budget that Works for All

Tell Congress: We Need a Budget that Works for All How we spend money says a lot about our nation’s priorities. Unfortunately, as you’ve probably heard, President Trump has proposed a budget that would cut human needs to the bone. Your organization has the ability to help us fight back. By partnering with other groups, we're aiming to collect 100,000 signatures in support of a fair budget. Please Sign and SHARE this petition with your networks. We need a budget that not just keeps us safe and secure, but also provides opportunities and gives us all the chance to succeed. We need to improve access to healthcare, housing, education, a clean environment, career opportunities, and social services. We need to safeguard vital programs such as SNAP/food stamps, SSI, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which lift millions out of poverty. We need the economic security that affordable childcare, housing assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child Tax Credit provide. We need to invest in infrastructure, to prevent environmental disasters and protect local communities, and to renew our nation’s railways, roads, bridges, schools, and waterways - the same infrastructure that created so many jobs in the mid-20th century and is now due for repair. We need public works projects that will propel our economy forward, projects that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the construction and manufacturing industries. This petition, which we will present to leaders in Congress, will show that there is widespread support for a fair budget, a People's Budget. Organizations such as yours can make the difference in this campaign, please join us by sharing this petition with your networks. Thank you, Deborah, Richelle, Lecia, David, Joe, Melissa, and Leo, and the rest of the folks at CHN.