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Well before the pandemic, the U.S. failed to design a childcare a system that works for families, childcare providers or children. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently said, “Childcare is a textbook example of a broken market.” She’s right. Women have disproportionately left the workfor...

Dear Voices Community – On March 16, 2021, eight people were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia. Human beings were gunned down, their lives taken. This was not an accident. While the investigation is ongoing and not all the identities of these victims have been disclosed, we know that six were Asian...

Connecticut Voices for Children congratulates our Board member, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, on her appointment as Co-Chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Task Force. Dr. Nunez-Smith has served on the Board of Connecticut Voices for Children for three years and is the Chair of the organizati...

These are unprecedented times, and COVID-19 has changed the way we live, perhaps for the long while. Given the state’s good progress in controlling the coronavirus, the mandate from the Connecticut State Department of Education is to safely reopen school buildings in the fall (for the 2020-202...

This article is a guest post by Deborah Stein, the Network Director of the Partnership for America's Children. It provides some much-needed context to the challenges Congress faces up until the end of the year, and how they can impact ...

On Wednesday, January 24th, Ellen Shemitz, Executive Director at Connecticut Voices for Children, testified in front of the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Gro...

The video of our 7th annual Youth at the Capitol Forum is now online. The event featured youth experts, social workers, and policymakers discussing ways to ensure smoother placement changes – transitions for foster children and youth between foster homes, group homes, and other residential ...

The budget passed by the General Assembly in October was much more than a budget document. In addition to severe cuts, the General Assembly also imposed sweeping changes to the state's constitutional spending cap along with several new budget restrictions. These rules, together, could dramati...

In today’s email: A Time to Give Budget: yet another deficit The Budget deal: a dangerous spending cap Federal update: a very ...

House leaders highlight an increase in the maximum value of the federal Child T...