Danny Davis

I am particularly interested in ensuring that any federal investment in transportation and infrastructure includes underrepresented and vulnerable workers.

I hope that the committee will consider protecting some funds to help workers get to the jobs.

Any Federal investment in transportation and infrastructure includes underrepresented and vulnerable workers.

I lead a bill with Senator Casey to do just that.

Would expanding the earned income tax credit to include individuals who were homeless and now are working individuals who age out of being a dependent child, would that essentially do some of the same thing?

What I see in the Trump tax law, a law that contains a substantial provision that will likely incentivize State and local governments to shift from progressive and real estate income taxes as a source of revenue and rely more heavily on…

Thank you. I support this routine bipartisan resolution.

My colleague Rosa DeLauro's FAMILY Act, which I and many of my colleagues have cosponsored, would build on these successful State experiences to make earned paid leave a reality across the country.

I am proud to cosponsor the Child Care for Working Families Act, introduced by my friend, Chairman Bobby Scott.

I think it is important for us, as Members of Congress, to remember that we all have a role to play in making sure that our communities are healthy and strong.

I am very much looking forward to working with all of you this Congress on these issues that are so close to my heart and so important to all of the families that we represent.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And, Mr. Ambassador, thank you. I thank you for the work you have done.

I thank you for the work you have done and the work you are doing, and for the candor in responding to inquiries and questions.

Under the ACA, even though children cannot be denied coverage, they are charged higher premiums due to a preexisting condition.

Much of my focus is on children, because children are such an important part of our population and represent so much of the future.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing, and I also want to thank all of our witnesses for coming to share with us.

Starting October 1, 2018, the Federal Government will provide a dollar-for-dollar match for State expenditures for the Kinship Navigator Program.

Child welfare is a deeply important issue to me and to the people of Illinois.

I look forward to continuing to work closely with her and as we implement the law.

There is room for TANF to provide support that is currently not providing to some of the agencies that are doing the work.

We should not be cutting off food, housing, and healthcare for people who aren't working. We should be knocking down the barriers that are keeping them from getting good jobs and supporting them, just as people supported us in achieving…

We need ample feedback from the people who are successfully lifting up families in our communities to ensure that any policy changes we consider will help more Americans get good jobs and not bring added hardship on struggling families.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I, too, thank the witnesses for being here.

I said this is un-American.

In 2014, nearly half of African American men between the age of 20 and 24 in Chicago were disconnected from both school and work.