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University Professor Nabila El-Bassel Receives the 2024 NIH HEAL Initiative Director’s Research Award
The award is given annually to an NIH HEAL Initiative researcher who demonstrates research excellence, supports broad dissemination of key…
PHOTOS: The raw power of Jewish diversity across four continents
A smashed and shattered Jewish woman’s grave in Buenos Aires; a Holocaust survivor smiling peacefully, surrounded by his grandchildren; circumcision…
In Honor of Ada Deer
September 28, 2023 Dear CSSW Community, I send this message to honor the memory of alumna Ada Deer,…
In Honor of Sheila Oliver
September 27, 2023 Dear CSSW Community, CSSW lost a wonderful alumna, New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver, ‘76MS,…
How the U.S. Can Return to Its Record-Low Child Poverty Rates | Opinion
The U.S. Census Bureau announced this month that the child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, climbing…
We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before
The expanded child tax credit was a well-tested solution to child poverty. Bring it back.
How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It
After the expanded child tax credit expired, America’s child poverty rate doubled. Why was that policy so successful, and what…
Lessons in Conquering Child Poverty
In the past few years, we’ve found out how to greatly reduce economic deprivation among the young, and how to…
Congrats on making millions of kids poorer, Congress
The Census Bureau reported this week that childhood poverty more than doubled after the expanded Child Tax Credit expired.
US poverty rate jumped in 2022, child poverty more than doubled: Census
Biden sharply criticized Republicans for not extending the child tax credit.