Download the SCAA 2024 Policy Priorities document here.
In 2024, the Schuyler Center urges leaders to champion policies that improve the health, well-being, and economic security of New York’s families, children, and communities, and that prioritize New Yorkers who are working hard to make ends meet. New York State must prioritize policies that focus on the more than 730,000 children living in poverty (19% of all New York children), and Black, brown and immigrant New York children and their families. These New Yorkers continue to be among those hardest impacted by the after-effects of the pandemic.
2024 Policy Priorities
(View the details on policies that will achieve each goal here.)
- Goal 1: Child Poverty Reduction — Reduce child poverty and racial inequity, starting by ensuring tax credits, housing, and nutritional supports 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 extend the promise of care to all children in our state.
- 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 foster transparency and accountability, prevent system-involvement and unnecessary, harmful family separations, reduce institutional placements, and support child, family, and community wellbeing.
Details on reaching each of the above goals can be found in the full 2024 Policy Priorities document.
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