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Legislative Actions to Reduce Child Poverty

Did you know there are at least five current federal legislative actions directed at reducing child poverty? Three of the initiatives would provide direct support to families with children, which would reduce poverty immediately. Biden’s Economic Relief Act – The American Rescue Plan (ARP, also known as the CARES Act), which contains several proposals to support families with children was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021. The act contains several family financial relief...

How Do Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning?

Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Director of Center on the Developing Child, shares in the following video how our early childhood experiences impact lifelong health. Learn how adversities, such as poverty and discrimination, effect brain development and other systems. Then reflect on how policies and resources can be used to address the root of these challenges that are facing the Chippewa Valley.

End Child Poverty Wisconsin

On December 14th, 2017, a coalition of faith-based networks and anti-poverty groups held concurrent announcements in multiple cities of a bold new campaign to end child poverty in Wisconsin. The campaign seeks to inspire Wisconsin to set a goal of eliminating child poverty, by holding itself accountable for reducing both child poverty and racial disparities by half in the next decade. The campaign is a product of 3 years of intensive policy discussions and moral reflection at 24 churches and...

Campaign Aims to Reduce Child Poverty

Despite low unemployment rates and other positive economic signs, childhood poverty is on the rise in Wisconsin, and the Chippewa Valley is not immune, which is why JONAH – an acronym for Joining Our Neighbors, Advancing Hope – is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, faith-based organization focused on addressing poverty and injustice in the Chippewa Valley. Its parent organization, WISDOM, and three other statewide groups – Citizen Action of Wisconsin, Kids Forward, and the Wisconsin Council of...

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