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EASTHAMPTON — Mayor Nicole LaChapelle used her recent annual state of the city address to highlight how Easthampton is building a “more resilient city for the future,” covering an array of projects and initiatives under way and in development that she...

FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) - Live United, Give United Day kicked off Friday in Cass and Clay counties. It's a chance to raise awareness and inspire action to h...

FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) - Live United, Give United Day kicked off Friday in Cass and Clay counties. It's a chance to raise awareness and inspire action to h...

SPRINGFIELD — At-large Springfield City Councilor Tracye Whitfield considered quitting her job at Massachusetts Municipal Life Insurance Co. nearly three decades ago because she was making too much money.At the time, Whitfield, who was a single mother...

He Iowa legislature is addressing the issue of child care access.

He Iowa legislature is addressing the issue of child care access.

Require us to sunset some individual provisions as well as some expensing provisions on the corporate side. that create that cliff effect if you would. im confident once we get to that period of time we will avoid that tax increase and so the bean counters should not restrict us from doing good policy and immediate relief, $1600 for that family of four, thats hard math. thats based on doing the math by the typical family in our district will see that immediately and im confident they will see th...

What i would love to be doing is making sure that we can bring the dialogue back to empirical evidence and research. our research with childrens health watch across the country shows that when families were cut off of tanf assistance, that it made an increase in child hospitalizations. so we have to think about tanf as actually a child health program. most of the recipients of tanf are children. >> there is of course the argument about tanf being very successful social policy and about the previ...

Cash assistance and that causes an increase in child hunger. so what it shows you is its complete completely diametrically opposed to whats supposed to be happening. >> the critique of the old system of course, was that it disincentivized work. if you -- and weve come up with a whole bunch of programs with the idea being that there is no cliff at which if you get a job or get an increase in income, your actual net gains go down, right? you do not want to create a system in which a job or a raise...

Concept, the cliff effect, has shown that when mothers report that theyve had a minor increase in income, and theyve lost their cash assistance or their s.n.a.p. benefits, again its increased child hunger. we know that child hunger is is a major public health problem. it causes an increase in hospitalizations. it has a terrible effect on child development. and this creates this cycle of toxic stress. which affects a childs ability to learn well in school. to arrive to kindergarten prepared. we k...