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H.R. 2408 114th Congress House

Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015

Official title: To establish in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing C… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To establish in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty to develop a national strategy to eliminate child poverty in the United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 19, 2015 Introduced by: Danny K. Davis Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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 Latest action May 19, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015

This bill establishes in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty.

The Working Group as its primary goal shall develop a national plan to reduce:

  • within 10 years the number of children living in poverty in the United States to half the number cited in the report of the U.S. Census Bureau on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013;
  • within the same 10 years the number of children living in extreme poverty in the United States to zero; and
  • within 20 years the number of children living in poverty, extreme or otherwise, in the United States to zero.

HHS shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for two public workshops to provide the Working Group with information to assist in the development of the plan.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 5671 Urban Progress Act of 2016
  • S 2224 Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015
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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Huffman, Jared
California · Sep 30, 2015
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Titus, Dina
Nevada · Sep 30, 2015
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Beatty, Joyce
Ohio · Sep 24, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2408: Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2408/
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