Download the 2025 policy priorities document here.
In 2025, the Schuyler Center continues to prioritize policies that improve health, wellbeing, and economic security of New York’s families, children, and communities, with a focus on New Yorkers who are working hard to make ends meet.
In 2022, New York made a statutory commitment to cut its child poverty rate in half in a decade. Yet, the number and rate of children experiencing poverty in New York has remained high, with 718,000—or 19% of all New York children—experiencing poverty in 2023. Due to systemic, historic, and ongoing racism, Black children continue to experience poverty at more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic white children. New York’s leaders must act with urgency to advance the policies we recommend below: policies proven to reduce child poverty, strengthen families, and set up all New York children to thrive.
(View the details on policies that will achieve each goal here.)
- Goal 1: Child Poverty Reduction — Reduce child poverty and racial inequity statewide, starting by investing in tax credits, housing, and nutritional supports that reach all families, no matter where they were born.
- Goal 2: Child Care — Make a substantial and sustained investment in New York’s child care workforce and continue to expand child care access, including for children with special needs.
- Goal 3: Children’s Health — Expand and increase investment in child and family health.
- Goal 4: Child Welfare — Transform the child welfare system by investing in policies that prevent unnecessary, harmful family investigations and separations, reduce institutional placements, foster transparency and accountability, and support child, family, and community wellbeing.
Details on reaching each of the above goals can be found in the full 2025 Policy Priorities document.
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