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Episode 406 | Visible, Compassionate Solutions

June 6, 2025
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Child Tax Credit

Childhood Poverty

Food Insecurity

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State Level

Episode 405 | We Could Guarantee Success with Guaranteed Income

May 14, 2025
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State Level

Season 4

Episode 404 | Going Far Together

April 14, 2025
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Childhood Poverty

Season 4

Episode 403 | $60 Billion on the Line

March 26, 2025
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State Level

Season 4

Episode 402 | A Five-Year-Old with a Working Mother

March 13, 2025
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Academic Articles/Reports

Childhood Poverty

Season 4

Episode 401 | Direct Cash: The Most Efficient Way to Deliver Aid

February 27, 2025
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Childhood Poverty

Season 4

Episode 306 | Elegantly Simple Solutions: More Cash For Families

November 27, 2024
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Food Insecurity

Season 3

Episode 305 | Dear foster kids: We’re going hyper-local to help you

November 22, 2024
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Childhood Poverty

Foster Care

Season 3

Episode 304: Using the Arts as a Spotlight: The Care Economy and the Stories of the Unhoused

November 1, 2024
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Housing Insecurity

Childhood Poverty

Season 3

Episode 303: Special Presentation | Hope for the Unhoused, presented by Roosevelt House

October 29, 2024
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Housing Insecurity

Season 3

Episode 302: The Kids Are Not All Right: Teen Mental Health, Resilience Myths, and Food Insecurity

October 10, 2024
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Food Insecurity

Season 3

Episode 301: Kids Are Hungry, Working and Not Getting Credit

October 4, 2024
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Food Insecurity

Season 3

Episode 213: In the Shadow of Slavery, Poverty Lurks | Disrupting Poverty EMPath Panel

July 3, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 212: PRIDE Panel | Support LGBTQIA+ Foster Youth | CASA-NYC

June 24, 2024
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Foster Care

Childhood Poverty

Season 2

Episode 211: Honoring Juneteenth | Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Dr. Ibram X Kendi Talk Racial Inequity

June 18, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 210: Are You an EMPath? Building Economic Mobility Pathways in Boston

May 30, 2024
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Episode 209: The Cost of Child Poverty: Direct Payment in a Time of Need

May 16, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 208: Resilience Isn't Enough | Cash Payments Make the Difference

May 3, 2024
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Foster Care

Season 2

Episode 207: Child Tax Credit Updates | Food Insecurity in New Jersey

April 17, 2024
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Child Tax Credit

Reviving CTC

Season 2

Episode 206: The Flint Episode | with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Dr. Luke Schaefer

April 4, 2024
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Childhood Poverty

State Level

Season 2

Episode 205: Filling Gaps in care with Crossroads4Hope and Growing Inclusivity with Rocksteady Farms

March 8, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 204: A Tale of Two Cities: Poverty in ATL and NYC | Hope Wollensack and Sophie Collyer Discuss

February 28, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 203: From Advocacy to Action: Solutions for Child Poverty Today

February 13, 2024
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Child Tax Credit

Childhood Poverty

Reviving CTC

Season 2

Episode 202: U.S. House Debate and Vote on CTC

February 5, 2024
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Politics

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Reviving CTC

Season 2

Episode 201: Rep. Rosa DeLauro Returns | Her Thoughts on the Upcoming CTC Vote

February 1, 2024
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Season 2

Episode 24: Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future With the CUNY Graduate Center

December 13, 2023
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Food Insecurity

Foster Care

Season 1

Episode 23: Child Poverty is Personal - Do You Hear Us?

November 29, 2023
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Politics

Season 1

Episode 22: "The Injustice of Place" Authors on Indexing Poverty in America

November 13, 2023
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Episode 21: Child Poverty is Personal | How Do We End It?

November 1, 2023
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Season 1

Episode 20: Nikhil Goyal Tells Us How to End Poverty | Shrusti Amula on her Foundation Rise N Shine

October 18, 2023
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Episode 19: Jenique Jones on her Work at WhyHunger | David Ambroz on His Journey from the Foster Care to External Affairs

October 4, 2023
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Episode 18: Writer Jennifer Egan Describes Her Work in New York City | Ethan Goodey Shares How He Found a Home

September 20, 2023
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Season 1

Episode 17: The CTC 6 Press Conference on Sept. 13, 2023

September 13, 2023
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Child Tax Credit

Politics

Season 1

Episode 16: Melanie Thompson on her Experience with Child Sex Trafficking | Megan Curran Updates Us On the Child Tax Credit

September 7, 2023
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Foster Care

Child Tax Credit

Season 1

Episode 15: Rural Mental Health with Jeff Winton & Escaping Poverty with Dapper Dan

August 23, 2023
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Season 1

Episode 14: Poverty in LGBTQIA+ with Jocelyn Frye & Military Families Facing Hunger with Abby Leibman

August 9, 2023
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Episode 13: Ideas on Ending Poverty | Senator Michael Bennet & Philanthropist Holly Fogle

July 26, 2023
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Episode 12: "Assessing 25 Years of the CTC" Senate Hearing

July 15, 2023
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Politics

Season 1

Episode 11: Lifting Children Out of Poverty with Housing Stability and Child Tax Credits with Karen Haycox and Celinda Lake

July 5, 2023
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Reviving CTC

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Episode 10: Exploring Issues Unique to Immigrant Families and Incarcerated Families | Wendy Cervantes and Dr. Alethea Taylor

June 21, 2023
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Episode 09: Moving the Needle on Childhood Poverty in New York | Gov. Kathy Hochul and Kate Breslin, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy

June 7, 2023
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Episode 8: Escaping Liberian Civil War Prepared Lucina Kayee for American Foster Care

May 24, 2023
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Episode 7: Changing Perceptions on Social Security and Poverty Mortality | Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings & Dr. David Brady

May 10, 2023
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Academic Articles/Reports

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Season 1

Episode 6: Eradicating Childhood Poverty with the Dads Caucus and Hearts of Gold | Rep. Dan Goldman & Deborah Koenigsberger

April 26, 2023
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Episode 05: Three Ways to Eradicate Child Poverty and Its Residual Effects with Kercena Dozier, Alissa Quart, and Dr. Rita Hamad

April 12, 2023
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Episode 04: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Brian Greene of the Houston Food Bank Hope for Future Policies that Reach the Most Vulnerable

March 29, 2023
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Episode 03: Dr. Nathaniel Harnett, Harvard Professor, and Clara Moore, RESULTS poverty expert, Discuss The Trauma and Ghost of Poverty

March 14, 2023
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Episode 02: Dr. C. Nicole Mason, Institute for Women's Policy Research, and Erin Boggs, Open Communities Alliance, Talk Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty and Solutions for a Better Future

March 1, 2023
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Academic Articles/Reports

Season 1

Episode 01: Dr. Kathryn Edin, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and Ashley Burnside, CLASP, Dig Into How The Child Tax Credit Helps Invisible Americans

February 15, 2023
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Child Tax Credit

Reviving CTC

Season 4

Season 1

If you need help or want to help, we recommend:

End Poverty in America (endpovertyusa.org)

For consistently great reporting on poverty—and ending it—we recommend:

EHRP Home - Economic Hardship Reporting Project

To see actionable facts, resources, and poverty fighting tools:

New York Can End Child Poverty

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