Lift Kids Out of Deep Poverty In the News
Listen: What canceled boosts to cash assistance programs means for low-income recipients
Radio Boston, WBUR, Jan. 17, 2024
Our state’s most vulnerable children will feel the effects
Letters to the Editor (Rebekah Gewirtz)
Boston Globe, Jan. 12, 2024
Activists push back on Gov. Healey's budget cuts to social services
NBC10, Jan. 11, 2024
Protestors call on Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to rescind aid cuts for the poor
Fall River Reporter, Jan. 11, 2024
Healey Cut Blocks Benefit Bump for Poor
State House News Service, Jan. 9, 2024
Lift Our Kids Coalition Urges Legislature To Raise Cash Assistance Grants And Commit To Cost Of Living Increases
State House News Service, Oct. 11, 2023
DiDomenico Pushes To Raise Cash Assistance for Families Living in Poverty
Everett Independent, Sept. 20, 2023
Inflation Saps Impact of Cash Aid to the Poor
WWLP.com, Sept. 12, 2023
No Child Should Live in Deep Poverty
The Boston Sun, Feb. 9, 2023
Bill in Legislature would boost cash aid to low-income families
Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 2023
Advocates asking state lawmakers to raise cash assistance benefits for low income families
WWLP.com, Jan. 26, 2023
Should Massachusetts raise welfare benefits?
Boston Globe, June 9, 2022
State weighs added benefits for families in deep poverty
Gloucester Times, Oct. 2, 2021
Enhanced benefits pitched to get families out of deep poverty
WHDH News, Sept. 29, 2021
Sen. DiDomenico urges action to end Deep Poverty
Everett Independent, Mar. 3, 2021
State budget raises welfare grants for poor families
Commonwealth Magazine, Dec. 4, 2020
Advocates Push for Boost in Welfare Payments
Commonwealth, Mar. 9, 2020
Lift Our Kids Coalition Holds Event for Children in Poverty
Cambridge Chronicle, Feb. 6, 2020
Deep poverty increases risk of child welfare system involvement
Commonwealth, July 27, 2019
Anti-poverty groups push to expand welfare benefits
The Daily News, July 18, 2019
Expanded welfare benefits pushed
Gloucester Daily Times, July 16, 2019
Coalition working to significantly increase welfare benefits to ‘lift kids out of deep poverty’
MassLive, July 16, 2019
Broad support for welfare cash assistance increase
State House News Service, July 16, 2019
Should the state increase welfare benefits? YES. Rep. Paul Donato
Boston Globe, Dec. 13, 2019
“When we give parents the resources they need to meet basic needs we reduce the risk of child welfare involvement, creating opportunities for our state’s most vulnerable children to thrive.”
- Susan Elsen/Rebekah Gewirtz, Commonwealth Magazine
“Families can’t make ends meet. They can’t pay for food when their food stamps run out, they can’t pay for laundry, they can’t buy their child a pair of shoes.”
- Deborah Harris, MassLive
“As someone who was a ‘ward of the state’ when I was a child, I know how important families are. I also know that some families need a little bit of help. Let’s invest in our children’s future by lifting them out of Deep Poverty.”
- Representative Paul Donato, Boston Globe
See selected press on Lift the Cap on Kids (family cap repeal) here.