The Children Thrive Action Network and several partners created the following briefs on the House passed reconciliation package. This legislation seeks to drastically cut funding for Medicaid and SNAP and bar eligibility to health coverage, food assistance, and tax credits and instead funnel that money to give $1.1 trillion in Read more…
The Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) and the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition (PIF) sent this letter to the Senate opposing the House-passed budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation bill poses extreme risks for the country’s immigrant families and their health and economic security, as well as for the economy, and state Read more…
Every child must have access to critical supports. Congress must take action to create a permanent solution to fight poverty for all children in the United States, including by permanently expanding the child tax credit (CTC) to include all children. Nationally, restoring eligibility for the CTC would impact over one Read more…
Factsheet on Children in Mixed-Status Families and Current Policy Threats This factsheet offers demographic information about children in mixed-status families and outlines major trends, with a focus on policies, that threaten their well-being.
By Celeste Dorantes History of Exclusion In 2012, the Obama Administration announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of young people to work and live in the United States without fear of deportation—including becoming our teachers, health care providers, and caregivers. Yet, Read more…
For the past twelve years, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has allowed hundreds of thousands of Dreamers — immigrants who entered the country as children — to go to school, work, and build their lives with lessened fears of deportation. However, this program was always meant to Read more…
This fact sheet was updated on August 27, 2024. Children Thrive Action Network partnered with The Ohio Immigrant Alliance to bring attention to the harms of deportation on children. Children and young people from communities of color bear a higher burden of the costs of deportation, resulting from systemic racism, social Read more…
The Center for Law and Social Policy led a group of child-focused organizations to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand existing pathways for administrative immigration relief to promote family unity and provide much-needed relief and stability to children in mixed-status Read more…
More than 260 organizations – representing children’s advocacy, health, education, labor, faith, antipoverty, legal, reproductive justice, disability, economic, immigration, nutrition, and academic sectors – signed onto a letter urging the Biden administration and Congress to oppose anti-immigrant and anti-asylum policies – including proposals that would further restrict asylum, expand expedited Read more…
July 24, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati at apyati@clasp.org Members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) have expressed alarm over reports of asylum seekers, including nursing mothers, pregnant women, and young children, being subjected to harm at the Texas border under Governor Abbott’s border security initiative. The disturbing reports include Read more…