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Worker & Family Support Subcommittee Chairman and Ranking Member Partner to Help Foster Youth Remain in College
Today, U.S. Reps. Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Chairman of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Worker & Family Support, and Jackie Walorski (R-IN), Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Worker & Family Support, applauded the new flexibility from the Department of Education to help foster youth and other vulnerable students document their income information during the pandemic.
The bipartisan task force was established in July 2019 to tackle the health and social inequities in the American health care system |
Millions of Unemployed Americans Could Lose Benefits July 31st Without Action by Senate Republicans, President
Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05), Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus, and Congressman Danny K. Davis (IL-07), Chairman of the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee, today sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump urging his administration to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits, which are set to run out at the end of July without action by the White House and U.S. Senate.
Washington, D.C.- On June 30, 2020, Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA) introduced the Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2020 to commit to cutting child poverty in half in 10 years and to monitor progress using the nonpartisan, evidence-based National Academy of Sciences.
Today, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL) issued the following statement after the Internal Revenue Service FY2019 Data Book released on June 29, 2020, showed an overall audit rate in 2018 for all individual taxfilers of 0.15 percent, for low-income taxfilers receiving the Earned Income Tax Credit of 0.60 percent, and for millionaire taxfilers of less than 0.05 percent.
Supplemental pandemic UI is set to expire July 31, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to a House Ways and Means Committee request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of who will receive regular unemployment benefits, supplemented by Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC).
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S.
June 29, 2020
The Honorable Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520
Dear Secretary Pompeo:
Congressman Danny K. Davis joined a letter to HHS Secreatry Azar unging reversal of decision to terminate funding for 13 coronovirus testing sites. The letter can be found HERE and below.
June 25, 2020
The Honorable Alex M. Azar II Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Dear Secretary Azar: