Unite with Us in Hope
Unite with Us - Give Now 154 years ago this month, Louisa Lee Schuyler looked at what was happening to the poorest people across New York and decided it wasn't good enough. She didn't have a staff or a budget or a policy agenda. She had a conviction that human beings...
President’s Message: New York has the means to tackle child poverty—it needs the will and public accountability.
June 2021. Remember it: this is the month and year New York State legislators declared their intent to cut child poverty in half in ten years. Before the pandemic, poverty affected the lives of one in five New York children and, in some communities—including...
President’s Message: March 2021
We have made great strides since the launch of our Campaign to End Child Poverty in December 2020. This year has brought a new President, a cohort of fresh, passionate State legislators, and growing enthusiasm among partners in our campaign to cut child poverty in...
President’s Message: Let our policymakers know child care matters
Greetings, friends. We miss you. We miss seeing you in our office and yours, at meetings, in the Capitol, on the street. We hope you and your loved ones are well. And we look forward to being together again. The work of shaping public policy is critical, now more than...
Our work is as important as ever!
Dear Friends, Wow. What a difficult and uncertain time it has been and continues to be. We hope you and your loved ones are well. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced every one of us—individuals and organizations—to re-evaluate everything: how we rely on each other, where...
President’s Message on COVID-19
Dear friends and colleagues, In this time of uncertainty, I wanted to personally connect with you over concerns associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus), worldwide, and here in New York State. Our hearts and thoughts are with everyone affected during this time and we...
Reducing poverty will require political will
Nearly three million New Yorkers live in poverty and 895,303 of them are children. An additional 643,000 children are in low-income households above the poverty level. That’s over a million New York children living in households struggling to pay rent, heat...
Fighting to Place New York Children at the Center of New York’s Policy Agenda
There are 6,709 registered lobbyists in New York State, all working to influence public policy. Our policy team at Schuyler Center is among them, part of a tiny fraction of the lobbying community pressing for public policy benefiting young children living in families...
Strengthening Family Economic Security and Improving Child Welfare Outcomes
More than one in five New York children live in poverty, a greater percentage than in 32 other states. And those numbers are substantially higher for children of color. There is abundant evidence that poverty causes children and families to experience not only...
Voting for Children Because Our Future Depends on It
Children thrive in stable, safe, supportive homes and communities. Children thrive when they have access to quality health care and education, including early education. Children thrive when they are spared the lasting trauma of poverty, food insecurity, and neglect....