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CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT NOMINATION OF JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR

For Immediate Release May 28, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman issued the following [...]

Service Announcements

CDF TAPS DR. CATHY GRACE TO SERVE AS EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIRECTOR

For Immediate Release May 14, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC-The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is moving again toward actualizing its vision [...]

Child Welfare

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND PRAISES CONGRESSIONAL ADOPTION OF TRANSFORMATIVE FEDERAL BUDGET RESOLUTION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman released [...]

Child Welfare

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT ON SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS’ CONFIRMATION

For Immediate Release April 28, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman released the [...]

Service Announcements

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS JOIN FORCES IN CALL FOR ACTION TO STRENGTHEN THE HEALTH OF THE NATION’S CHILDREN

For Immediate Release April 17, 2009 WASHINGTON, DC - Commemorating National Minority Health Month, today, leading civil rights groups, including the Asian American Justice Center [...]

Child Welfare

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND ASKS CONGRESS TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BUDGET

For Immediate Release March 26, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC – This week the Children's Defense Fund sent the following [...]

Health

YOUNG LEADERS FROM 33 STATES AND D.C. CONVENE AT CDF HALEY FARM TO PLAN ACTIONS AROUND HEALTH CARE REFORM

For Immediate Release March 24, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 CLINTON, Tenn.— This weekend more than 100 youths, age 18-25, representing 33 [...]

Child Welfare

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT ON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER

March 18, 2008 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3611 WASHINGTON, DC — Children's Defense Fund (CDF) General Counsel Susan Gates today released the following [...]

Ending Child Poverty

NEW REPORT FINDS LOW-INCOME FAMILIES LOSE BILLIONS TO PREDATORY COMMERCIAL TAX PREPARERS

For Immediate Release March 16, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Children's Defense Fund released a report finding [...]

Child Welfare

CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT ON SECRETARY-DESIGNATE KATHLEEN SEBELIUS’ SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING

For Immediate Release March 2, 2009 For More Information Contact: Ed Shelleby (202) 662-3602 WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman released the [...]

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