One of these Governors signed a bill to provide universal school meals for the state and the other signed a bill to encourage child labor. Look at the kids, they tell a story.

Exciting news! Center on Budget has launched CBPP.org…en español! Explore our new Spanish-language resources here➡️cbpp.org/es

Next month’s Census data are likely to show that the # of children in poverty soared in 2022 b/c policymakers chose to let the #ChildTaxCredit expansion end. Congress should make a different choice this year & expand the CTC. More in our new report and thread by @DaniloTrisi:

Poverty is a POLICY CHOICE. 2021, *depths of pandemic* : there was historic decline in child poverty bc lawmakers expanded child tax credit. 2022, *economic expansion": experts predict historic INCREASE in child poverty bc CTC improvements expired. cbpp.org/research/pover…

If the #ChildTaxCredit expansion had been renewed, 3 million fewer children would have been in poverty in 2022. Instead, the number of children in poverty more than doubled, from 4 million in 2021 to 9 million in 2022: cbpp.org/blog/analyzing…

Saying it again for anyone who missed it the first time around: 📢 Today's stunning rise in poverty is the DIRECT RESULT of policy choices!!!📢

listen to disabled people 💖

🫂Caregivers want the best for their kids, but are struggling! Poverty is a policy choice. Congress took away #ChildTaxCredit expansions & cut food support for families. Time to bring them back! Video shows tweets from Catherine Rampell Center on Budget Aditi S James E. Clyburn

Donna's name, to me, is synonymous with #TANF because hers were some of the first papers I read when I studied TANF in grad school. It's been an honor to work together! While I'm sad that LaDonna Pavetti is leaving our team, I'm grateful that she'll continue to work in the TANF space

More than half of Americans can't afford an unplanned expense of $1,000 or more. Our average out-of-state caller has an abortion that costs $8,347. Abortion access is an economic justice issue.

If they gave a quarter of that annually to every person who they will incarcerate here they’d probably eliminate most of the crime. But that’s not really the point, is it.

House CR proposals keep getting more disconnected from the needs of people, communities, business, and the economy. Speaker McCarthy is trying to force ever-deeper cuts that were rejected in the debt ceiling agreement he made with the President.

Covid-era stimulus checks gave a jolt of momentum to proponents of "guaranteed income," or GI, initiatives. They showed that "the government can make cash available to the vast majority of people pretty easily," said Center on Budget's Aditi S.

States should protect and expand guaranteed income programs and other ways to get unrestricted cash to families - important read from my colleague Aditi S cbpp.org/blog/states-sh…

Want to know more about the #ChildTaxCredit, #EITC, #housing & #health proposals? A thread ⬇️

#ChildTaxCredit expansion should be key bipartisan priority in 2025. Full credit to low-income kids, higher support to fams w/ newborns & young kids, & larger credit provided monthly would help shore up families’ budgets & cut child poverty. cbpp.org/research/feder…

Expanding #EITC for low-paid workers w/o children at home would correct a terrible feature of our current tax code: taxing some workers into or deeper into poverty: cbpp.org/blog/a-clear-p…

Heartbroken families shouldn’t have to beg America for their right to survive a miscarriage on national television. VOTE BLUE.

For the record: You cannot have an abortion in the 9th month. You cannot have an abortion after birth. If we didn’t keep banning books, maybe we wouldn’t have to clear that up. #Debate2024