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Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024 – 2025 New York State Executive Budget Proposal: Human Services

Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq. Director of Youth Justice & Child Welfare Children’s Defense Fund – New York

Child Health

Testimony for the Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2024-2025 New York State Health/Medicaid Executive Budget

The COVID-19 pandemic compromised the health, safety, and stability of our children, young people, and their families and communities. It also highlighted and exacerbated longstanding inequities disparately affecting communities of color.

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January 2024

Child Poverty

The Next Continuing Resolution Must Prioritize Children and their Families

Nearly 45 days ago, Members of Congress waited until the last minute to temporarily fund the government and prevent a shutdown.

November 14, 2023 | National

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Take Action Now to Expand the Child Tax Credit!

November 2023

Child Poverty

What a Continuing Resolution Means for America’s Children and Youth

Over the weekend, the federal government narrowly avoided a shutdown, when Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) just hours shy of the end of fiscal year 2023.

October 3, 2023 | National

Child Poverty

A Measure of Leadership

As some members of Congress showed they were willing to bring the federal government to the brink of a shutdown, with demands that include deep cuts to services children and families rely on, once again some people have accused them of acting like children. Yet even five-year-olds understand that quitting the game and taking the ball home if the other players won’t give you your way is wrong.

September 29, 2023

Child Poverty

Children’s Group Letter on Tax and Budget Priorities

As a group of advocacy organizations specifically focused on child well-being, we the undersigned have grave concerns that the actions of extreme factions within Congress will cause undue harm in the near-term and well into the future for children and families with the lowest incomes.

September 21, 2023 | National

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Alarming Surge in Child Poverty Rates in 2022: Urgent Calls for Action

Last week, the Census Bureau released the U.S. poverty data for 2022.

September 20, 2023 | National

Child Poverty

New Federal Data Shows Child Poverty Rate More than Doubled in America Last Year, Children’s Defense Fund Calls on State and Federal Lawmakers to Act

September 12, 2023 | National