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Empire Justice Memo of Support: Child Day Care Waiting Lists
This bill would require local social services districts to maintain waiting lists of all families who are eligible for child care assistance, and to provide an annual report to the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). Read More |
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Empire Justice Tesimony: Challenges Facing the Child Care Community
This testimony focuses on the desperate need for resources to provide child care subsidies and an innovative way to prioritize limited child care dollars to support parents who are working, policy disparities between districts and the importance of ensuring that co-payments for child care subsidies are affordable for parents. Read More |
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Highlights from the 2011 Legislative Session
After all the emails, strategy sessions, meetings, Facebook updates and trips to Albany, the 2011 Legislative session closed with a huge amount of excitement about New York’s new civil rights law. Read More |
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Empire Justice Testimony on New York State’s Draft Child Care Development Fund Plan for FFY 2012-2013
Access to subsidies gives children in low income families the opportunity to engage in an early learning experience that their families could not ordinarily afford. Much of this testimony focuses on areas where we believe OCFS can expand access to child care subsidies to two underserved populations: children in immigrant families and children with special needs. Read More |
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Empire Justice Memo of Support: Disregard Teen Earnings When Determining Child Care Eligibility
Senator Diane Savino and Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee have introduced a bill, that would exempt the income of teens when calculating a family’s eligibility for child care assistance. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Human Services in the 2011-12 Executive Budget Proposal
As New York continues to grapple with the aftermath of the recession, it is essential that we do not forget that there are many among us that are still in its epicenter. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Comments on the Early Childhood Advisory Committee’s Strategic Report and Plan
Empire Justice Center comments on the Early Childhood Advisory Committee’s Strategic Report and Plan focus on the need to work on addressing the inequities in the child care subsidy system. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony at the Executive Budget Hearing on Human Services
Testimony before the Joint Legislative Committees on human services in the 2010-2011 executive budget. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on the 2009-2010 Human Services Executive Budget Proposal
Our testimony today will focus on a series of recommendations for the human services budget and will touch on the need to restore the elimination of civil legal services funding. Read More |
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Empire Justice Center Testimony on Budget issues in Health, Education, Higher Education, and Social Services
We urge you to use the level of funding allocated for the provision of essential services such as civil legal assistance, welfare benefits, child care and disability assistance and the availability of health coverage to low income and disenfranchised New Yorkers as the yardstick by which you measure the quality of the budget proposal. Read More |
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