Child poverty.

Existing law establishes various programs that provide cash assistance and other benefits relating to health care, food, and housing, among other things, to qualified low-income families and individuals, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the California Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , and the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Existing law also establishes the Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force, until January 1, 2020, for the purpose of recommending future comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing deep child poverty and reducing child poverty in California. The task force is required to submit a report to the executive branch administration and the Legislature by no later than November 1, 2018. This bill would extend the operation of the task force to January 1, 2022. The bill would require the task force to examine the feasibility of developing and codifying the California Poverty Measure, as established by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Public Policy Institute of California. The bill would require the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by January 1, 2021.