"Currently, states do a great job of effectively running their child support enforcement programs, and current actions by the IRS threaten the states' ability to continue to administrate this vital pro..."
"I believe that child poverty is a moral emergency. It is inexcusable that children in the wealthiest nation in the world are growing up in poverty."
"This inability to govern has prevented us from doing our work for three weeks, despite an urgent need to keep our government operating, address the child care cliff, and stand by our allies."
"It is shameful, quite frankly, that this Congress is not taking strong, immediate action to end poverty, using policies proven to work."
"Every day we delay action, poverty poisons the future for millions of our children and for our nation."
"Democrats stand ready. I stand ready to set an aggressive child poverty reduction target and hold ourselves accountable to restore income supports to strengthen families and cut child poverty."
"For years, structural racism has led to much higher rates of child poverty among children of color, especially Black children."
"The more effective approaches to dealing with trauma and how it impacts, would that be a beneficial activity for us to put more emphasis on to help reduce poverty?"
"So the more comprehensive our approaches are, the more likely we are to see positive results."
"we were outraged, quite frankly, that criminal rings stole unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic"
"not a single Republican voted for these anti-fraud funds"
"we are all in favor of waiving all non-fraudulent overpayments that came from the pandemic programs"