Schumer also addressed the extension of the Child Tax Credit, saying that the law will funnel about $7 billion to eligible families in New York.…
Read More »Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer visited Rochester on Wednesday, enumerating the bounty of recent federal stimulus funding and promising even further spending in President Joe…
Read More »The American Rescue Plan also includes an additional round of direct stimulus checks that have already started going out, aid to help schools reopen, an…
Read More »Preview – The American Rescue Plan and Children … And Much More in the March Edition of TCA’s E-News March 2021 What The American Rescue…
Read More »No child is predestined to live in poverty. And even though the United States is among the richest countries in the world, we consistently rank…
Read More »If you’re a part of a family with children – there’s a good chance you receive a child tax credit. President Biden’s $1.2 trillion stimulus…
Read More »The two leading plans in Washington to support children and families come from President Biden and... Mitt Romney? It's true - the Republican Senator has…
Read More »February 2021 Federal COVID Relief – What it Means for Children House & Senate to Take Action on “Once In A Lifetime” Legislation in Coming…
Read More »We applaud New York’s own Chuck Schumer for understanding “the fierce urgency of now” in fighting for the needs of low-income families with children. The…
Read More »A new stimulus is coming from the federal government. Right now, Congress continues to bicker over whether individuals should receive $600 or $2,000. We talk…
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Read More »The Biden/Harris campaign says its proposals could cut the poverty rate in American in half. Connections discusses the proposals and the impact they could have.
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Read More »Three decades ago, a team of researchers at Duke University set off to follow a group of schoolchildren in a stretch of rural North Carolina…
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Read More »Congress returns later this month to work on the next round of help for struggling Americans during the pandemic. Is this the time for a…
Read More »Nearly two dozen people voiced their ideas on how Rochester should spend $7.5 million in federal coronavirus relief funds at a City Council committee meeting…
Read More »A survey conducted the week of April 22 of New York parents found that 1 in 3 of of the parents surveyed had their hours…
Read More »A growing body of research shows that tax credits targeted to low-income families lead to better lifetime outcomes for poor children. The Children’s Agenda has…
Read More »Progressives and conservatives can agree that self-sufficiency is a worthy goal of social policy. That’s why policy wonks of all stripes support the Earned Income…
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Read More »Tuesday. community members rallied against proposed cuts to SNAP benefits.
Read More »President Donald Trump wants to make major changes to SNAP, the federal food stamp program that thousands of local families rely on to feed themselves and…
Read More »Proud to join Congressman Joe Morelle, Julia Tedesco from Foodlink, Jerome Underwood from RMAPI and many other community leaders calling upon President Trump to rescind…
Read More »Our policy director, Pete Nabozny, discusses the impact of possible Trump administration changes to the SNAP benefit program. The result, according to the administration, will…
Read More »The Trump administration recently issued a proposed rule that would remove food assistance from millions of Americans by making them ineligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition…
Read More »How will Monroe County’s decision to lower child care co-pays change what working families will have to pay for child care? Pete Nabozny, Director of…
Read More »Pete Nabozny, policy director at The Children’s Agenda, joins a panel on Connections, discussing Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang's call for a UBI, a Universal…
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