- Safety Net Barriers Add to Child Poverty in Immigrant Families. A feature in The New York Times in April 2023 discusses the barriers that children in immigrant families face in accessing social safety net programs. Professor and ICYFP Director Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is quoted and our research is cited.
- Is the End of Child Poverty in Sight? The winter 2023 issue of Heller Magazine profiles ICYFP’s work fighting to end child poverty by focusing on racial/ethnic equity.
- Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty. A September 2022 The New York Times article on the decline in child poverty over the past 30 years quotes Acevedo-Garcia celebrating this change and pointing out persistent inequities for children in immigrant families.
- ‘Full-time work doesn't pay’: Why are so many working American families living day to day? In a September 2022 article, USA Today covers our research on inequities in race/ethnicity, income, and nativity in family job quality. Senior Scientist and ICYFP Associate Director Pamela Joshi and doctoral student Abigail N. Walters are quoted.
- Every child deserves good health. That requires urgent action on equity. In an April 2022 op-ed in The Boston Globe, the president of Boston Children's Hospital and the dean of the faculty at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health refer to the Child Opportunity Index to make a case for additional investment in maternal and child health, early childhood support, and behavioral health and wellness.
- What the Child Tax Credit fight says about America. In an op-ed in The Hill in January 2022, Acevedo-Garcia and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Dr. Richard Besser explains how the expanded Child Tax Credit was a transformational policy—and what still needs to be done to further reduce child poverty equitably.
- We Tried to Find the Most Unequal Place in America. It Got Complicated. In a February 2020 article, TIME magazine shares findings from the Child Opportunity Index 2.0 on neighborhood inequities within and between cities. Acevedo-Garcia is quoted.
- What shapes a kid’s opportunities? Researchers say look to the neighborhood. A January 2020 The Washington Post piece highlights inequities in neighborhood resources found in the Child Opportunity Index 2.0. Scientist Clemens Noelke and Acevedo-Garcia are quoted emphasizing the racial divide U.S. children face in accessing neighborhood opportunity.