For Our Children: Back to School
As we find inspiration in history, we are challenged to make progress for young people in the present.
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For Our Children: National Day of Social Action
In more than 120 planned events from coast to coast, thousands of CDF Freedom Schools Scholars pushed for more gun violence prevention efforts as they told the world: #YouthArentBulletproof.
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For Our Children
When young Black and Brown children and youth see their stories in books—when they read about families like theirs, from neighborhoods like their own—they learn more effectively.
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SCOTUS Affirmative Action decision leaves Young People on their Own, But Not Alone
With the increasing diversity of young people in America ‘affirmative action’ in every facet of public life is more important now than ever. What the Supreme Court has made clear is that the responsibility is ours. We, the community of advocates, activists, organizations, faith leaders and community champions must take affirmative, assertive, and even aggressive action to build a nation where all people can thrive and ‘let America be America again.’
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Children’s Defense Fund calls on Senate to introduce fully inclusive Child Tax Credit Legislation – June 29, 2023
A child’s well-being is tightly connected to their family’s financial stability. An analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) quantifies the potential effects of inaction, indicating that Congress’s failure to extend the CTC would send 10 million children into poverty or slip them deeper into poverty.
Read MoreJuneteenth: Knowing our history
Juneteenth marks one crucial point in time, but also reminds us to sustain the liberation efforts that made the events of June 19, 1865 possible. CDF embraces that charge today and everyday as we build community with you so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.
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Children’s Defense Fund’s Statement on the American Family Act of 2023 – June 7, 2023
The American Family Act will increase CTC payments for children under 6 years of age from $2,000 to $3,600 annually and from $2,000 to $3,000 for children between ages 6 and 17.
Read MoreCDF Founder’s Day to honor Marian Wright Edelman
Thank you, Mrs. Edelman, for your unwavering dedication to defending and uplifting America’s children and youth. Your commitment for the past 50 years has brought us closer to a nation where marginalized children flourish, leaders prioritize their well-being and communities wield the power to ensure they thrive.
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Tell Congress: Stop Budget Cuts on America’s Children, Youth, and Families.
Children’s Defense Fund unites its voice with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and our institutional and grassroots partners across the nation in declaring work requirements a non-starter in any deal to raise the debt ceiling.
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Why policymakers must consider housing needs in addressing children’s health disparities
Congress, state legislators, and government agencies must then reframe policies for the future and permanent enactment, coordinating multiple networks of support in both housing and healthcare.
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