By
Susan Arbetter
Albany/Capital Region
PUBLISHED 3:42 PM ET Dec. 21, 2020
PUBLISHED 3:42 PM EST Dec. 21, 2020
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Back in 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which enshrined an ambitious climate goal into statute, and created a Climate Action Council to develop recommendations to meet those targets.
A new bill, sponsored by Senator Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Harry Bronson, would use the same strategy to combat child poverty.
The Child Poverty Reduction Act (S.9012/A.11063) aims to cut child poverty in half by 2030. Just as the Climate Act required the state to put its goals into statute, so does the CPRA.