Issues
Testimony: Oversight: Child Abuse Cases and the Various City Touchpoints for Families
On October 31, 2016, CCC testified before the City Council General Welfare Committee about the various City Touchpoints that can help prevent child abuse and neglect in New York City. This hearing was held in response to the death of six-year old Zyme …
Testimony: HUD’s Proposed Rule on Small Area Fair Market Rents for the Section 8 Program
On October 5, 2016 CCC submitted testimony in support of the City Council Resolution calling on the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to exclude New York City, and other cities with a housing vacancy rate below 5%, from the Proposed …
CLC Learns about Early Childhood Education in Fifth Week
Week five of the CLC focused on the youngest New Yorkers and the early childhood programs that the City has for them including homevisiting, subsidized child care, Head Start and pre-kindergarten. Early childhood education and homevisiting programs hav …
CityViews: Now for the Bad News on Income and Poverty in NYC
This blog post was written by Hetali Jokhakar, the policy associate for research and data analysis at the Citizens’ Committee for Children. It was originally published by City Limits. You can also download an infographic for a visual snapshot of the A …
Infographic: A Tale of Two Cities: Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey
CCC has created a snapshot of the state of children and families in New York City as told by data from the 2015 American Community Survey. The snapshot includes an infographic and data table highlighting key data points from the survey, citywide and by …
