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Statement in Response to Governor Cuomo’s proclamation of September as Kinship Care month
Citizens’ Committee for Children (CCC) and Schuyler Center for Advocacy and Analysis (SCAA) thank Governor Cuomo for proclaiming September Kinship Care month. As the Governor states, kinship caregivers provide unparalleled support to hundreds of thousa …
Statement in Response to Governor Cuomo’s proclamation of September as Kinship Care month
For Immediate Release September 25, 2017 Contact: Elysia Murphy (212) 673-1800 x18 emurphy@cccnewyork.org Citizens’ Committee for Children (CCC) and Schuyler Center for Advocacy and Analysis (SCAA) thank Governor Cuomo for proclaiming September Kinship …
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York Releases Preliminary Analysis of New Census Data Released Today
For Immediate Release: September 14, 2017 Contact: Elysia Murphy, emurphy@cccnewyork.org, 212-673-1800 ext. 18 Today, the United States Census Bureau released data for 2016 on income and poverty levels in New York City. There was a fair amount of good …
New Census Data: A Preliminary Analysis
Today, the United States Census Bureau released data for 2016 on income and poverty levels in New York City. There was a fair amount of good news. The poverty rate declined from 20.0% in 2015 to 18.9% in 2016, bringing it to within less than a point …
For homeless children, ‘back to school’ brings fresh challenges
Across New York City, 1.1 million children are anxious for their first day of school. Many are thinking about who their new teachers will be, which other kids will be in their class, what they will wear on that first morning, and how much homework the …
