Children and Families
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Tipton County Board of Education will receive an additional $11,224,734 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for replacement of Crestview Elementary School in Covington destroyed in the storms and tornadoes of March of last year.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) must postpone a scheduled Thursday morning, March 14, press conference with the leaders of the Agape Child and Family Services and CodeCrew due to unforeseen circumstances.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $251,912 from the National Cancer Institute for caregiver education with interactive neurodevelopmental games for infants undergoing treatment for medulloblastomas.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), whose district includes Memphis with a child poverty rate of 32.7 percent, went to the House floor Tuesday evening to discuss income inequality and poverty and Tennessee’s failure to address it.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) went to the House floor this evening to condemn the October 7 Hamas hostage takers and call for the immediate return of the hostages. In particular, he drew attention to hostages Noa Argamani and Hersh Goldberg-Polin whose fates remain unknown.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants, for $245,700 each, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $409,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Metabolic checkpoint in dendritic cell subsets and adaptive immunity.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Shelby County will receive $2,058,400 for its Ryan White HIV Emergency Relief program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.