Statement from CCC Regarding the City’s Executive Budget for FY 2015

Released May 8, 2014

Contact: Elysia Murphy, (212) 673-1800 x18, emurphy@cccnewyork.org

“The Executive Budget proposes critical investments that will improve the well-being of New York City’s children and families, including increasing the number of shelter beds for runway and homeless youth, adding 362 staff to ACS to help keep children safe, creating a new rental subsidy program for working families, ensuring summer youth employment funding incorporates the recent minimum wage increase, and ensuring all 4-year-olds have pre-school and middle school students have after-school programs. The future of New York City looks brighter today and we are incredibly grateful that the Administration has taken critical steps to ensure NYC’s children are healthy, housed, educated and safe,” said Jennifer March, Executive Director of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York.

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About CCC

Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a privately funded, independent non-profit that educates and mobilizes New Yorkers to make the city a better place for children. Our advocacy combines public policy research and data analysis with citizen action. We cast light on the issues and identify and promote practical solutions to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated and safe.