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GRACE & End Child Poverty California Support Budget That Protects the Safety Net, Commit to Further Advocacy
GRACE & End Child Poverty California Support Budget That Protects the Safety Net, Commit to Further Advocacy Urge Adoption of Budget That Protects Safety Net and Continued Action to Ensure Equitable Revenues Needed to End Child Poverty in California PASADENA, CALIF., UNITED STATES, June 25, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Statement attributable to Shimica Gaskins, President & CEO, GRACE & End Child Poverty California (ECPCA): This weekend, Governor Newsom and California legislative leaders...
GRACE & End Child Poverty California Applauds Legislature’s Budget Agreement
GRACE & End Child Poverty California Applauds Legislature’s Budget Agreement Urges Adoption of Legislature’s Budget Which Protects Progress in Core Safety Net Programs and Services PASADENA, CALIF., UNITED STATES, May 30, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Statement attributable to Shimica Gaskins, President & CEO, GRACE & End Child Poverty California (ECPCA): Yesterday, California legislative leaders announced their joint Legislative budget agreement, marking a crucial step forward in our collective...
California needs a big policy rethink - Capitol Weekly
Twitter Facebook Email OPINION – After years of budget surpluses and replenishment of the state’s Rainy Day Fund, California now suddenly faces budget uncertainties that could severely stymie its continuing forward progress. Governor Newsom recently released a mid-year revision to his proposed 2023-24 budget, projecting a $31.5 billion shortfall, up from $22.5 billion in January.
CA must invest in ending child poverty - Capitol Weekly
Twitter Facebook Email OPINION – With headlines focused on climate change, political polarization, and threats to democracy and basic rights, it’s hard to find a whole lot to celebrate in the news today. But California’s success in reducing child poverty during the COVID pandemic is a historic achievement. In just two years starting in 2019, we reduced the number of children in poverty in our state by 42 percent; that’s 770,000 fewer children living in poverty.
Assemblymember Mia Bonta Champions Grant Program to Expand Coordinated Neighborhood & Community Services Networks
AB 2517 is a partnership with GRACE, End Child Poverty in CA, California Promise Neighborhood Network, CA Cradle to Career Coalition, and StriveTogether AB 2517 will expand California’s capacity to challenge poverty, address disparities, and provide support for children and their families from cradle to career.” — Assemblymember Mia Bonta SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, February 23, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced Assembly Bill...
CA Organizations Applaud Legislation to Support Children Impacted by COVID-19 & Lay Groundwork for “Baby Bonds”
California Anti-Poverty Organizations Applaud Legislation to Strengthen Safety Net for Children Impacted by COVID-19 and Lay Groundwork for “Baby Bonds” Baby bonds are a dignity-centered way to ensure that poverty is not passed down to the next generation of Californians.” — Solana Rice, co-founder of Liberation in a Generation.
End Child Poverty in California Responds to Governor’s Budget; Urges Keeping the Momentum on Reducing Child Poverty
ECPCA & GRACE Applaud Governor’s Budget for Strides in Health and Economic Mobility but Bolder Investments Needed to Further Reduce Child Poverty We have an opportunity to plant the seeds of transformative and generational change for California's children.” — Shimica Gaskins, President & CEO of GRACE & End Child Poverty CA PASADENA, CA, UNITED STATES, January 11, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Media Contact: End Child Poverty In California shimicagaskins@grace-inc.org info@grace-inc.org End Child...
Youth leaving foster care should receive guaranteed income
The debate over survival checks is front and center as millions of families face an uncertain financial future. While short-term relief for the duration of the pandemic is certainly necessary, the debate over stimulus checks has opened the door to a long overdue conversation about guaranteed basic income. But even that conversation often fails to address some of the most vulnerable among us: youth transitioning out of the foster care system.
OpEd: A Proven Advocate for Kids: California's Goodwin Liu – AsAmNews
By Patricia Soung, Shimica Gaskins, and Cyn Yamashiro Soon, Governor Gavin Newsom will appoint California’s next Attorney General. We hope the Governor will select a leader with a proven track record of fighting for California youth and their families. The best person for the job is CA Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu. His formidable intellect, deep policy experience and commitment to equal justice makes him the ideal person to lead the CA Department of Justice.
L.A. County Failing to Keep Incarcerated Youth Safe
A probation officer and a detainee at Camp Scudder, an L.A. County juvenile facility in Sylmar.
L.A. County's Failure To Keep Incarcerated Youth Safe
Shortly after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in spring 2020, the Children’s Defense Fund-California petitioned the Supreme Court of California to immediately release youth in Los Angeles County juvenile halls and camps if they did not pose “an immediate, specific, articulable and substantiated risk of serious physical harm to another.” Shimica Gaskins of the Children’s Defense Fund-California Filed on behalf of the Center for Juvenile Law and Policy...
‘Guaranteed income’ would help close California’s racial wealth gap
In summary A coalition of mayors are advocating for a guaranteed income that would improve the livelihood of many California children and families. By Shimica Gaskins, Special to CalMatters Shimica Gaskins is the executive director of Children’s Defense Fund-California, a child advocacy organization, [email protected] Throughout her childhood, Samantha Galindo remembers how her dad would come home exhausted from working multiple jobs.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
California should support immigrants with expanded tax credit eligibility
Every year, the state of California collects taxes from hard-working immigrants who may lack documents but don’t lack the civic will to contribute to state coffers. And every year, the state excludes those filing with an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) from being eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC), a program meant to reward and incentivize work.
Investing in California’s children is a moral imperative. But it’s also essential to our future
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