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  • Child Poverty

    A Time for True Renewal

    In 2020, when the start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a holy season like no other, Pope Francis published an Easter Sunday letter directed to movements and organizations working for justice for people with low incomes and those experiencing poverty.…

  • Child Health

    North Texas Families to Discuss Impact of Potential Medicaid, SNAP Cuts on Children

    On Monday, North Texas families will gather at Friendship-West Baptist Church to discuss how potential cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could impact the region’s children.…

  • Child Poverty

    Family Stability & Economic Mobility: Expanded Child Tax Credit as a Key Anti-Poverty & Child Welfare Prevention Strategy

    Children’s Defense Fund and Chapin Hall are collaborating to advance evidence-based strategies that strengthen child and family well-being. This brief focuses on the promise of making permanent the pandemic-era expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC). …

  • Child Welfare

    Child and Family Wellbeing Fund One-pager

    Legislation creating a new Child and Family Wellbeing Fund would support children’s growth and development by investing resources in 10 communities that have been historically disenfranchised and targeted for government intervention through the child protective services (CPS)/child welfare system for 5 years.…

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