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Lift Our Kids is a Coalition of 160 Massachusetts organizations dedicated to improving cash assistance programs for the Commonwealth’s lowest income children and families.

Lift Our Kids is currently leading a campaign to Lift Kids Out of Deep Poverty by setting a floor for welfare (TAFDC and EAEDC) benefits at 50 percent of the federal poverty level.

  • “Deep poverty” is income below half the federal poverty level – $1076 a month for a family of three in 2024.

  • TAFDC is intended to meet families’ basic needs. But the maximum grant for a family of three in 2024 is only $783 a month.

  • Grants are too low to provide for kids’ basic needs.


Join the Lift Our Kids Coalition