Mahima Golani

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."

Join the Safety Net Activists in the fight against Trump's benefits cuts: bit.ly/TownHallCuts25

Trump and Republicans in Congress are planning to try to pass huge cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, Section 8, amongst others. Join for updates on the federal budget and next step to resist the cuts.

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...

@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 The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.

The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children | @mford.bsky.social - The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/1951...

Opinion | Now might be exactly the worst time to cut Medicaid and food stamps Cutting the safety net could prolong an economic recession.

"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."

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...

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...

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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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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