Child Homelessness in America

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-- ensure that the proposed $2 billion for the Emergency Shelter Grant goes for trauma-informed services for children and families;

-- spend $3 billion for child care vouchers for at risk children;

-- allocate more funding to produce jobs and develop the workforce;

-- expand TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families);

-- increase the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps);

-- fund $175 million to comply with the Violence Prevention and Services Act;

-- fund $717 million annually for the Victims of Crime Act;

-- require the federal Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) to make child and family homelessness a high priority, not a rhetorical one; and

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