Families & The Federal Budget

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Health Care Realistic & Fair Wages

September 16, 2016

On Sept. 13, the U.S. Census Bureau released important new data on poverty, median household income, and the number of Americans covered by health insurance. Below is a statement by Deborah Weinstein , executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs , responding to the new data. The official...

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David Elliot

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security

September 16, 2016

Poverty data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal child poverty declined last year to 14.5 million poor children from 15.5 million in 2014, one million fewer but still higher than before the recession began in 2007.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food!

September 14, 2016

Of course we know that hunger exists in America – and that an estimated 15.3 million children in our country, or one in five, live in a household where there is a real risk they will go hungry. Often studies of childhood hunger involve very young children – up to five years of age, for example, and...

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David Elliot

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

September 2, 2016

The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and AASA, The School Superintendents Association, have just released Happy, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: Insure All Children! a toolkit to help schools and districts connect children to health care coverage as part of routine school enrollment.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

August 31, 2016

August marks the 20th anniversary of welfare reform , which created the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. As part of welfare reform, Congress also made new investments in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) recognizing that low-income mothers need help...

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Hannah Matthews

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

August 24, 2016

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the law that placed a time limit on cash assistance for poor families with children and required some degree of work, job search, or training to receive benefits. The new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), replaced Aid to...

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Debbie Weinstein

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Military Families

August 19, 2016

Imagine flying from Italy to Spain, then boarding another plane from Spain to Virginia, and finally, driving down from Virginia to Tennessee all in a matter of days just to turn around and fly out to California. Sounds exhausting, right? Now add a 5-month-old breastfeeding baby to the mix who is...

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Heather Stephens

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Military Families

July 18, 2016

One military mom speaks out before Congress about the struggles her family faced to make ends meet and put food on the table while her husband served in the military.

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Erika Tebbens

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

July 12, 2016

In an important show of bipartisanship, Congress is on the cusp of an historic step to help many of the most vulnerable children in our nation who are abused and neglected and at risk of entering foster care and lingering in group care.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

June 30, 2016

On Tuesday, June 21, the House passed by voice vote the Family First Prevention Services Act (H.R. 5456), introduced in the House by Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and others. Many advocacy groups were supportive of this bipartisan bill, which would allow states to use federal child welfare dollars to pay for family services to prevent children from needing to enter foster care. These services could include mental health services, substance abuse services (including opioid and heroin abuse services), or in-home parenting skills programs (including individual and family therapy).

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