“DOES CONGRESS PASS THE TEST IN PROTECTING CHILDREN?”
How well do your members of Congress protect children? The Children's Defense Fund Action Council (CDFAC)'s new 2006 Congressional Scorecard grades every member of the [...]
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“PROTECT CHILDREN, NOT GUNS”
As the nation's mayors met in Washington, D.C. in January to discuss solutions to gun violence at their annual conference, the Children's Defense Fund released Protect [...]
Read More“JUDGE JANE BOLIN”
"Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have had to fight every inch of the way — in the face [...]
Read More“MAKING HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL CHILDREN A REALITY IN 2007”
As the new political year gets off to a start, many leaders are spending a lot of time talking about what they want to accomplish [...]
Read More“NEW YEAR, NEW LEADERS READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”
"For these children, our children, and for all of America's children, the House will come to order!" With these words Representative Nancy Pelosi, surrounded by [...]
Read More“SANTA CLARA COUNTY PROBATION PROGRAM’S ALTERNATIVE TO WAREHOUSING YOUTHS”
At the Children's Defense Fund's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit in Sacramento, California, we heard from young people from Missouri and California who are trying to [...]
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