Sign on by Sept. 24. Faith leaders representing a broad variety of faith traditions in Arizona are called on to co-sign a letter to Sens. Kelly and Sinema to make Arizona and our nation more consistent with God’s mandate to care for the most vulnerable and particular concern for people living in poverty.

The USDA announced an update to the Thrifty Food Plan, which is used to set benefit levels for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This science-driven and long-overdue reevaluation will be welcome news for families across the country, many of whom will be better able to afford a healthy diet with greater SNAP benefits.

More than a year into a public health crisis that snowballed into a social and economic disaster, Baker was still among the 28 percent of households struggling to cover household expenses in July. She was still among the 11.5 million renters behind on her payments. She was still among the 1 in 7 parents struggling to feed their families. All this despite a raft of government interventions, the latest of which is an expanded child tax credit approved by Congress in March.

Senator Sherrod Brown, a Lutheran, Democrat, and US senator from Ohio, and Peter Edelman, faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, share an opinion about the child tax credit.

President Biden’s Covid-19 relief package is poised to bring a historic reduction in poverty rates, with nonmetro counties among the biggest beneficiaries.

The Children’s Defense Fund just released the latest version of their annual State of America’s Children report. The report compiles the latest data on a wide range of issues impacting children and highlights the ways in which COVID-19 has exacerbated these concerns.

A big part of the administration’s coronavirus relief package is focused on children. The president says he wants to expand the federal child tax credit, which gives families money for each child they have — or at least reduces their taxes. This change could help lift nearly 10 million children above the poverty line or get them closer to it.