Focus Area: Addressing Poverty

A Godsend How Temporary Investments In The Child Tax Credit And Child Care Impacted Michigan Families
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A ‘Godsend’: How Temporary Investments in the Child Tax Credit and Child Care Impacted Michigan Families

By Julie Kashen / March 2022
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Systemically Neglected: How Racism Structures Public Systems to Produce Child Neglect

March 2022
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What We Owe Young Adults Involved with Child Welfare: A Youth Thrive Policy Agenda

January 2022
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Woman and two young girls in the kitchen.
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Insights From Families: Caregivers Describe How Monthly CTC Payments Help Them Stay Afloat

By Ellie Kaverman / December 9, 2021
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Children sitting on a bench swing and smiling.
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Loretta Young: Manchin shouldn’t buy ‘work requirements’ talk (Opinion)

By Loretta Young / December 3, 2021
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Mom and sons playing with dog on the couch.
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Why We Need a Child Allowance: Lessons from the Child Tax Credit

By Alex Coccia / October 22, 2021
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Mother reading book to her child.
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New Data Confirms Cash Assistance Helps Lift Families from Poverty

By Elisa Minoff / September 14, 2021
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The Lasting Legacy of Exclusion: How the Law that Brought Us Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Excluded Immigrant Families & Institutionalized Racism in our Social Support System

By Isabella Camacho-Craft, Valery Martínez, Indivar Dutta-Gupta / August 2021
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Ensuring Families Receive the Child Tax Credit

July 2021
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To Reach Every Child, the Child Tax Credit Eligibility Requirements Must Be Changed

By Children's Defense Fund / June 2021