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Children are depending on us to urge our federal representatives to pass a robust COVID relief bill that fully addresses their needs. Compromise measures are…

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.

With the election just a month away, a few local advocacy groups held a forum where candidates running for office in the state Assembly and…

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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…

The looming threat of a 20% cut in state education funding has school districts across New York anxious — but, as is often the case, it…

ACT Rochester is sending out a call to action, after publishing a new report that finds that minorities in Rochester are facing huge challenges in…

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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…

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Parents who have been at home with their young children for months are looking forward to getting back to work. Unfortunately, they may come to…

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The Rochester Area Community Foundation has established a COVID Education Fund to urgently support the purchase of technology and home internet access for students who…

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…

When schools closed in March and teachers and students were pushed to online learning settings, the transition proved difficult for students who lack internet access…

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…

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The Children’s Agenda is pleased to help lead Raising NY, a diverse statewide coalition of parent, early childhood, education, civil rights, business, and health organizations.…

Low-income families are in a particularly vulnerable spot as the coronavirus spreads. If schools close, where can kids get meals? What happens for families that…

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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…

The second floor of the New York State Capitol is bustling as the governor works on his budget proposal, due in January.

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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A new report says the percentage of children living in areas of concentrated poverty has dropped in 29 states, but here in New York the…

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Tuesday. community members rallied against proposed cuts to SNAP benefits.

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…

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…

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…

Women of color make significantly less than white, non-Latino men over the course of their careers

The city has ended the public comment period for its first comprehensive plan since Bill Johnson was mayor in the 1990s.  Since Rochester 2034 was announced in…

In New York State, black women earn 65 cents for every dollar a non-Hispanic white male makes doing similar work. A local group is trying…

A new statewide coalition that launched Thursday, Raising New York, seeks to tackle the social, emotional, economic and educational inequities among the state's youngest residents.

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…

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As a collective, ROC the Future’s focus is to help each child reach his or her full potential. The nonprofit alliance works to promote alignment…

The Rochester Early Childhood Education Center attributes parent involvement to much of its success.

TCA Director of Policy, Pete Nabozny, guests on the WBAI radio show, Living for the City, to discuss the release of the 2019 Kid’s Count…

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…

With only about one in four youngsters in the Rochester City School District who participated in the lunch program during the school year taking advantage…

After 2 years, how is the “First 1000 Days on Medicaid Initiative” shaping up?