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Immigration

Tracking ICE’s Death Flights

October 14, 2020 | Texas
Child Health

The Children’s Protection Act Will Bring Children’s Health and Wellbeing to the Forefront of Rule-Making

While proposed regulations often have a significant impact on children, that impact is rarely made explicit as part of the formal regulatory process. Currently, federal agencies are not required to analyze or share how regulatory changes could impact or harm children. To address this issue, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley introduced the Children’s Protection Act to better ensure our regulatory process prioritizes the health and wellbeing of our children.

October 13, 2020 | National
Immigration

ICE: Federally Funded Abuse and Neglect

October 12, 2020 | Texas
Early Childhood

Reflections on Parental Leave

Over the last 7 weeks, I have been lucky to take a second stint of parental leave in addition to the 5 weeks I had at the start of our child’s life. This experience has given practical meaning to what I have intellectually known for some time: parental leave is tremendously important to bond with a new child, to develop as a parent, and for fathers, to pursue a fatherhood that works to meet motherhood as an equal.

October 12, 2020 | National
Ohio Voters' Guide for Children

October 8, 2020 | Ohio
Immigration

Cruelty Is the Point: The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Family Separation Policy

“We need to take away children,” then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions told prosecutors in May 2018, according to a draft Department of Justice report obtained by the New York Times. The prosecutors in the room reportedly recoiled, but this is what followed: thousands of immigrant children ripped from their parents, a global outcry, and our ongoing national and moral disgrace.

October 8, 2020 | National
Education

Eliminating Barriers Between Texans and Voting

October 7, 2020 | Texas
Food Deserts in Appalachia: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Families and Children

October 6, 2020 | Ohio
Immigration

Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 10/05/20

October 5, 2020 | Texas
Child Poverty

Family Crisis Cash Assistance Act Seeks to Provide Automatic Cash Assistance to Suffering Families

A new bill, the Family Crisis Cash Assistance Act (H.R. 8387/S. 4770), introduced last week in the Senate by Senator Brian Schatz and in the House by Congresswoman Gwen Moore would make sure that every household in need would receive cash to help meet their needs in the case of a sudden economic downturn or natural disaster.

October 2, 2020 | National

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