“WALKING WHILE BLACK”
Every parent raising Black sons knows the dilemma: deciding how soon to have the talk. Choosing the words to explain to your beautiful child that [...]
Read More“A HEALTHY START: PROTECTING GREAT GAINS FOR CHILDREN IN THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT”
Since our founding almost forty years ago, the Children’s Defense Fund has fought to ensure that all children in America receive the healthy start they [...]
Read More“THE AMERICAN PROMISE: THE RIGHT TO VOTE”
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no [...]
Read More“PURSUING JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN AND THE POOR NOW”
I begin each year with a women’s spiritual retreat at CDF-Haley Farm’s leadership development center in prayer, silence, and song seeking God’s guidance for the [...]
Read More“MEDICAID: HELP IN HARD TIMES”
February marks the third anniversary of the Child Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), which has made significant improvements in health coverage for millions of [...]
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“DESPERATELY WORKING TO STAY AFLOAT”
Levi Nation, age 12, and his sister Katherine, eight, eat Sunday dinners at their grandparents’ house in rural Kalkaska County, Michigan. They live with their [...]
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“‘I JUST WANT A JOB'”
The January jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor was good news for the 243,000 people who found jobs. And good news for the [...]
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“RESCUING THE AMERICAN DREAM”
In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about his grandparents, who were part of the World War II “generation of heroes” who [...]
Read More“TOUGH IMMIGRATION LAWS: TOUGH ON CHILDREN”
Alabama has passed the toughest immigration enforcement law in the country. Now children born in the U.S.A., American citizens, are living in fear. Some children [...]
Read More“DERRICK BELL – CHANGING THE ODDS FOR OTHERS”
“In all my courses, I really have to teach the basic messages of my life… that the rewards, the satisfactions, are not in being partner [...]
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