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Letter from Child, Immigrant and Poverty Advocates Urging Empire State Child Credit Expansion

We urge the State to include language in the 2021-22 Budget ensuring New York children who are left out of the American Rescue Plan’s child tax credit expansion receive a meaningful State child credit this year.

Child Health

What the American Rescue Plan Act Means for Children and Families

Today, Congress took the final step to pass the American Rescue Plan Act, which President Biden is expected to subsequently sign into law. The $1.9 trillion relief package, for which President Biden’s proposal served as the foundation, marks a bold step forward in the fight for our children’s future. The American Rescue Plan Act will provide immediate relief for children and families, work to address the racial and economic injustices that COVID-19 has exacerbated, and take a long overdue step to address our nation’s shameful child poverty crisis, cutting child poverty in half in 2021.

March 10, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

Statement: The Children’s Defense Fund Celebrates Passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, a Critical Down Payment on Ending Child Poverty

The Children’s Defense Fund will fight to make these changes to the Child Tax Credit permanent and to continue make improvements. We believe this is crucial to our vision of a nation where marginalized children flourish, leaders prioritize their well-being, and communities wield the power to ensure they thrive.

March 10, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

Universal Housing Vouchers Can Fight the Affordable Housing Crisis and Cut Child Poverty

The first step toward eliminating housing insecurity is adequately investing in federal housing assistance and making housing assistance a mandatory program not subject to budget caps or cuts.

March 5, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

Tackling the Benefits Cliff: Smoothing Benefits Phase-outs to Drive Economic Security for Ohio's Children

March 5, 2021 | Ohio

Child Health

Texas Winter Storm Resources - Last updated February 23, 2021

February 22, 2021 | Texas

Child Poverty

Congress Is Getting Serious About Fighting Child Poverty: A Review of the Latest Child Allowance Proposals

More than 10 million children were living in poverty in 2019 and the economic crisis created by the pandemic has threatened the security of millions more. These children need fast and flexible assistance. A child allowance would put cash directly into the hands of families with children to spend without restrictions—to put food on the table, keep the lights on, and keep children safely housed.

February 9, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Urges Congress to Ensure Children and Their Families Are Stably Housing During the Pandemic and Beyond

COVID-19 has exacerbated the nation’s affordable housing crisis—the result of a long history of racist housing policy including chronic underinvestment—the burden of which falls disproportionately on Black and Latino children. The emergency relief passed in December—which provided $25 billion in emergency rental assistance and extended the federal eviction moratorium—was a critical short-term step to protect the millions of families with children who are behind on their rent, but more must be done to ensure that these families emerge from the pandemic free from back rent and the looming threat of eviction.

Child Poverty

Congress Must Break the Stalemate and Act on the Bipartisan Support for the Direct Cash Assistance Families Need

It’s a new year and a new Congress, but some things haven’t changed: the pandemic continues, children and families across the country are in need, and relief isn’t coming quickly enough. Congress should act on the bipartisan support for direct cash assistance and provide $2,000 payments to every adult and child immediately.

February 2, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Calls for Congress to Expand the Child Tax Credit in the Next COVID-19 Relief Package

Families need immediate support as they struggle with the costs of raising children in the midst of an ongoing pandemic and faltering economy. Ensuring that families have adequate support is especially important for the Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and immigrant communities who have been hit hardest by the current economic and health crises, and who have too often been excluded from support and services. We urge Congress to act without delay to strengthen and expand the Child Tax Credit, and ensure that all children in need are able to regularly and easily access the benefit.