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Funding for subsidies: Not too late to help working families as state budget allocations for child care take a nosedive
After the dust settled on budget negotiations, the state legislature added nearly $3.6 million for child care to the executive proposal.
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The People's Budget
The People’s Budget – developed by the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus each year with contributions from Empire Justice and colleagues!
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Help Low Wage Parents Keep their Jobs!
For many families the cost of child care is almost double what a family of three with two children pays for rent.
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Empire Justice Center 2012 Legislative and Executive Agenda
The focus of our state level policy work for 2012.
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State Budget Cuts to Child Care Threaten Well Being of Children in Low-Income Working Families
This year as part of the New York State budget, the legislature cut $42 million dollars from the New York State Child Care Block Grant (NYSCCBG). As a result, many low-income working families are at risk of losing child care assistance.
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2011 Child Care Development Fund Allocations
County by county analysis of child care subsidy funding to local social services districts in New York.
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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 that will bring marriage equality to same sex couples.
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Social Services and Child Care State Budget Outcomes
Social services and child care state budget 2011 outcomes.
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Empire Justice Center 2011-12 State Legislative Priorities
New York State has long led the nation in crafting effective and responsive policies in times of crisis; our ability to lead and to foster innovation in the face of adversity is second to none. We all agree that New York must pursue new approaches and new policies that will help our state recover from the economic recession so that we can begin to thrive once again.
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Legislative Round-Up: 2009-2010 Session
Another tempestuous session of the New York State Legislature recently concluded. It was a session often characterized by political stalemate and dominated by the State’s budget woes. Therefore it is not surprising that there was considerable frustration within the community of advocates for low-income New Yorkers.
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