Children and Families
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath’s Early Head Start programs will receive $1,284,763 and the Shelby County Board of Education will receive $13,360,627 for Head Start programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration of Children and Families.
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WASHINGTON – On Friday, March 3, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will hold an event for the news media to discuss the $1 million he secured for the YMCA Before and After School Programs at Memphis and Shelby County Schools. Officials with the YMCA and the schools are expected to participate.
What: A News Media Event to Discuss funding for Before and After School programs
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Diversity Advancements in Accelerated Learning Programs Act, legislation that would authorize Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) funding to be used to create equity offices in state education departments or local education agencies. These offices would work to provide recommendations and develop programs to improve diversity in Advanced Placement (AP) and Gifted and Talented (GT) academic programs.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $708,579 to study hematopoietic stem cell dysfunction in sickle cell disease from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $754,116 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the cerebellar origins of medulloblastoma subgroups.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced The Living Wage Now Act, a measure to immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking his assistance to ensure the health and safety of Tennesseans living with and at high risk for contracting HIV by providing HIV treatment and prevention funding directly to county health departments and community organizations after the Tennessee Department of Health’s (TDH’s) decision to discontinue its participation in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Prevention and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiat
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Keeping Evictions Off Credit Reports Act. The measure would prevent evictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic from appearing on credit reports, which could prevent renters from being approved for future housing. Representatives Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi and Yvette Clarke of New York are original co-sponsors.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $764,284 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research on the structure and functional mechanism involved with molecular chaperones and protein kinases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, January 18, Congressman Cohen and leaders of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital will discuss the two new ambulances for which he was able to secure funding this year through the congressional appropriations process. The media are welcome.
What: A press conference on two new ambulances secured for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital