We hate that we need to say this again, but we’ll say it again: We are horrified by and condemn the Trump administration’s imminent plans to conduct mass deportation roundups of immigrant families, which will do real and lasting harm to countless children.
Read MoreIn January of this year, against the backdrop of a dramatic shortage of foster and adoptive homes, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to South Carolina allowing agencies there to discriminate against people applying to be foster and adoptive parents on the basis of religion.
Read MoreToo often, when a politician takes center stage, poverty doesn’t. During the 2016 election, none of the 26 presidential debates focused on poverty. In fact, it’s been more than 30 years since presidential candidates were asked how they would address child poverty on a debate stage. An entire generation of children has grown up in poverty while our leaders have remained silent.
Read MoreThe Children’s Defense Fund is proud to be among the advocacy organizations who today included our voice in a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that uplifts this powerful message: Employment discrimination against LGBTQ people harms children. The brief, submitted by pro bono counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, urges the Court to rule in favor of LGBTQ employees who have confronted workplace discrimination.
Read MoreThis morning, the Supreme Court blocked, at least temporarily, the Trump administration’s effort to include a question about respondents’ citizenship status and thereby undermine the 2020 Census.
Read MoreWith cheers of “Sí se puede!” and “Yes we can!” echoing in the gallery, the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6), legislation that—if enacted—would provide about 2.5 million immigrants with a path to citizenship.
Read MoreRoughly 18.5 million of children under age 18 in America have one or more parents who were born outside of the U.S.—that’s about one quarter of our children.
Read MoreEarlier this month, the Trump Administration proposed a change to the way the threshold for poverty is calculated that would slowly cut off federal assistance to millions of people.
Read More“He will be forever 3 years old.” These were the words of Arika Williams shortly after her 3-year-old son Aiden accidentally shot and killed himself last year in South Carolina.
Read MoreWhen Teresa Todd, an elected official, government lawyer and single mother, saw three siblings struggling along a dark West Texas highway, she didn’t hesitate. She pulled over and went into “mom mode.”
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