Mahima Golani
@mahimagolani.bsky.social
NYC "can better address the poverty that exposes families to child welfare involvement. Behind many crises that boil over as addiction, depression, or violence are months of scraping by, running from food pantries to housing court, cramming into shelter, waiting on treatment and going without."
50 years after NY Daily News exposed the predations of NYC private #fostercare agencies, there’s been a lot of progress, but much more needs to be done. Nora McCarthy of NYC Family Policy Project offers a roadmap: www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/18/b...
‘Big Money, Little Victims’ 50 years on
The Daily News investigative series “Big Money, Little Victims,” published 50 years ago, set in motion a cascade of city actions, philanthropic investment and advocacy that changed the course of ch…
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May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NYC "can better address the poverty that exposes families to child welfare involvement. Behind many crises that boil over as addiction, depression, or violence are months of scraping by, running from food pantries to housing court, cramming into shelter, waiting on treatment and going without."
@CBPP's Sharon Parrott: "Workers may need help because their employer lays them off or cuts their hours, or because they get sick or have to miss work to care for a sick loved one, and the House Republican plan takes help away from people in exactly these situations."
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House Republicans’ Shockingly Harmful Agenda Is Now Crystal Clear – the Country Deserves Better | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Their agenda couldn’t be clearer: stripping health care and food assistance away from millions of people and raising families’ costs, breaking their promises to help people on the margins of the econo...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@CBPP's Sharon Parrott: "Workers may need help because their employer lays them off or cuts their hours, or because they get sick or have to miss work to care for a sick loved one, and the House Republican plan takes help away from people in exactly these situations."
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The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children | @mford.bsky.social - The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/1951...
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children
The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children | @mford.bsky.social - The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/1951...
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"This combination — top-heavy tax cuts financed by low-income benefit cuts — would add up to possibly the largest single transfer of wealth from poor to rich in U.S. history" says @bbkogan.bsky.social. Must-read this morning from @crampell.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Now might be exactly the worst time to cut Medicaid and food stamps
Cutting the safety net could prolong an economic recession.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"This combination — top-heavy tax cuts financed by low-income benefit cuts — would add up to possibly the largest single transfer of wealth from poor to rich in U.S. history" says @bbkogan.bsky.social. Must-read this morning from @crampell.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A study on state spending "found that for every additional $1,000 per person living in poverty spent on public benefits, child maltreatment fatalities dropped by nearly 8%. Rather than evidence for more surveillance, these numbers show that when we invest in support, we save lives."
"A chorus of voices in child welfare have tried to frame the growing national effort to reduce unnecessary family separation as a threat to child safety. But what they are selling isn’t the truth." - Prevent Child Abuse America & Social Current
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Children do best with their families
The child welfare system has for far too long confused poverty with neglect, punishing families who are poor with separation rather than offering the supports that can keep families together safely…
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May 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A study on state spending "found that for every additional $1,000 per person living in poverty spent on public benefits, child maltreatment fatalities dropped by nearly 8%. Rather than evidence for more surveillance, these numbers show that when we invest in support, we save lives."
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NYC has a harmful #childwelfare system; But it is less harmful than most others and less harmful than it used to be. That’s thanks to decades of hard work by family defenders and family advocates, and it started with a newspaper series 50 years ago today www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/h...
May 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
NYC has a harmful #childwelfare system; But it is less harmful than most others and less harmful than it used to be. That’s thanks to decades of hard work by family defenders and family advocates, and it started with a newspaper series 50 years ago today www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/13/h...
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House W&M bill does nothing for the ~17M kids currently left out of the $2,000 max credit b/c their families’ earnings are too low. Temp. raising the max to $2,500 gives them $0 or zilch, but delivers an additional $500-per-kid to higher-income families.
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Policymakers Should Expand the Child Tax Credit for the 17 Million Children Currently Left Out of the Full Credit | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Congressional Republicans may soon release a budget resolution that will set the terms of the tax debate, and which is expected to extend the 2017 tax law, including its changes to the Child Tax...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
House W&M bill does nothing for the ~17M kids currently left out of the $2,000 max credit b/c their families’ earnings are too low. Temp. raising the max to $2,500 gives them $0 or zilch, but delivers an additional $500-per-kid to higher-income families.
www.cbpp.org/blog/policym...
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New report: The Protective Power of Cash
Shifting Cash Support in New York to Promote Family Well-Being: Lessons from Research on Guaranteed Income and Child Welfare
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TLDR in the thread; 1/
Shifting Cash Support in New York to Promote Family Well-Being: Lessons from Research on Guaranteed Income and Child Welfare
familypolicynyc.org/wp-content/u...
TLDR in the thread; 1/
December 16, 2024 at 10:39 PM
New report: The Protective Power of Cash
Shifting Cash Support in New York to Promote Family Well-Being: Lessons from Research on Guaranteed Income and Child Welfare
familypolicynyc.org/wp-content/u...
TLDR in the thread; 1/
Shifting Cash Support in New York to Promote Family Well-Being: Lessons from Research on Guaranteed Income and Child Welfare
familypolicynyc.org/wp-content/u...
TLDR in the thread; 1/