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Needs of Younger Generations Argue for Further Fiscal Relief and Stimulus
Shortchanging the immediate substantial needs of the economy in the name of younger generations would be shortsighted and even self-defeating.
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Bolstering Family Income Essential to Help Children Emerge From Current Crisis
Children’s alarming rates of food and housing hardship risk inflicting sustained harm to the well-being and potential of a generation, but a strong package of income support policies can lower this...
Bolstering Family Income Is Essential to Helping Children Emerge Successfully From the Current Crisis
Children’s alarming rates of food and housing hardship risk inflicting sustained harm to the well-being and potential of a generation, but a strong package of income support policies can lower this...
Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion Would Benefit American Indians and Alaska Natives
Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-paid working adults not raising children in the home, as the COVID relief package before Congress would do on a temporary basis, would...
Roundup: Congressional Action on COVID Relief
Both the House and the Senate have passed a fiscal year 2021 budget resolution and will work in the coming weeks to pass urgently needed COVID-19 relief legislation. We’ve excerpted below...
COVID Relief Package Includes Important Unemployment Benefit Extensions, But Duration Should Be Extended
The House Ways and Means Committee will consider legislation this week to extend critical unemployment benefit provisions that help unemployed people pay their bills and care for...
Jobs Recovery Still Long Way Off, Especially for Low-Wage Workers and Workers of Color
Employers added just 49,000 jobs in January, today’s jobs report shows, highlighting the need for policymakers to enact significant additional economic relief legislation that prevents key...
Economic Think Tank Leaders Urge Policymakers to Pass Robust COVID Relief to Control the Virus, Address Hardship, Boost Economy
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
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Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
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Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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Gaps in Economic Support for Non-Elderly Adults Without Children Continue to Leave Millions in Poverty, Data Show
Non-elderly adults without children, one of the largest demographic groups in the United States, are left out of many economic and health security programs that are effective at reducing poverty and...
Parrott: President-Elect Biden’s Relief Plan Meets Urgency of Health and Economic Crisis
President-elect Biden’s emergency relief proposal is a substantial, responsible plan that would significantly reduce the hardship that millions of people across the country are now...
Jobs Recovery Stalled in December, Highlighting Importance of Further Relief and Stimulus Measures
The jobs recovery that began in May 2020 had run out of steam by the time the end-of-year legislation was enacted, the latest jobs report...