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Children growing up in poverty face horrible lifelong consequences to their health, education, and overall quality of life. Compared with cities its size, Rochester ranks as the number one worst city in the United States for child poverty, with 48% of our city’s children in poverty. We are first in the nation in the rate of extreme poverty, with 15% of the city’s population living in deep poverty (2020 U.S. Census data, 2015 – 2019). From May – July 2020, 10,000 more Monroe County children plunged into poverty under COVID (United Hospital Fund study, Oct. 2020).

Congress ordered and funded the largest, most exhaustive, and most nonpartisan, evidence-based report on how to reduce childhood poverty in half. The 2019 report released by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that child poverty costs us $800 billion to $1.1 trillion every year due to increased crime, worsened health, and lower earnings when poor kids become adults.

But the report concluded that a suite of two-generation-at-once public policy changes would cut child poverty in half in 10 years:

  • A big increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit;
  • A refundable child tax credit; and
  • A publicly funded minimum child support payment for single parents entitled to child support from their former partners.

Along with assistance for high quality early child care and education, we already know what works. What’s missing is the political will to make it happen. That’s where The Children’s Agenda comes in.

Poverty News and Alerts

Tax credits for low-income New Yorkers get temporary boost
Tax credits for low-income New Yorkers get temporary boost
Posted onMay 2, 2022May 3, 2022
Monroe County Parent Poll: Child care affordability, pandemic-related school disruptions, and mental health concerns
Monroe County Parent Poll: Child care affordability, pandemic-related school disruptions, and mental health concerns
Posted onApril 4, 2022April 4, 2022
March 2022 E-News
March 2022 E-News
Posted onMarch 29, 2022March 29, 2022
Crisis in the Classroom: The Impacts of Poverty
Crisis in the Classroom: The Impacts of Poverty
Posted onMarch 29, 2022March 29, 2022
Nearly Half of All Children in Rochester Live in Poverty, Second Highest in the Nation
Nearly Half of All Children in Rochester Live in Poverty, Second Highest in the Nation
Posted onMarch 29, 2022March 29, 2022

The Child Poverty Reduction Act Signed Into Law

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