Politicians and policymakers often make decisions that are simply ... fairly modest amounts of aid can make a huge difference to their well-being. More than half of the rise in child poverty ...

That’s why expanding the child tax credit is good public policy. Yet, the current modest child tax credit expansion, which accounts for about $35 billion of the package’s $78 billion price tag ...

This included updating the child care eligibility threshold and providing a modest increase to per-child funding rates. “For over a decade, the eligibility levels for subsidized child care and ...

Instead, the 25-year-old Family Medical Leave Act simply required employers with 50 or more workers to grant parents 12 weeks of leave annually to care for a new child – but did not guarantee ...

Infants and children 5 years old and younger experienced only "modest" delays in developmental ... 3 (ASQ-3), a caregiver-completed measure of child development routinely collected as part of ...

Next month, Island families who make less than $80,000 a year will receive up to $360 per child annually — or ... "We'd acknowledge it's a modest amount, but I think it will be a help," he ...