On January 14, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee held a hearing about the 2017 Trump tax law. Here are five key takeaways from the hearing.
In the FY 2017 budget request, President Obama called for significant new funding to strengthen the effectiveness of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) as a safety net for the lowest-income families with children.
Senator Casey (D-PA), Representative Crowley (D-NY), and Representative Frankel (D-FL) introduced the Child Care Access to Resources for Early Learning (C.A.R.E.) Act, bicameral legislation to provide high-quality child care to all low-income families (below 200 percent of poverty) with children under age four by 2025.
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget proposal continued his call over many years for significant investments in child care and early education.
The Alliance for Quality Career Pathways (Alliance) is a network of leading career pathway practitioners from 10 states. During phase I of the Alliance, these experts in education, workforce development, and human services systems leveraged years of partnership and program implementation experience to develop the Alliance Framework.
This month, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) published misleading claims that the Healthy Families Act (HFA), proposed federal paid sick days legislation, will negatively affect employment. In claiming that the HFA will lead businesses to cut jobs, NIFB’s report disregards empirical evidence from…
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (LLFPA). The first bill President Obama signed into law upon taking office, the LLFPA expands upon the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to help ensure women receive equal pay for equal work.…
The GED Testing Service has lowered the passing score on its subject area high school equivalency tests from 150 to 145. This change provides states a unique opportunity to raise the GED’s profile in career pathway systems.
