Resources

  Child Welfare Federal Funding Streams: Title IV-B

While Title IV-B makes up only 4% of federal child welfare funding, it remains a very important funding source given its flexible structure and focus on prevention. There are no federal eligibility rules for recipients of Title IV-B, so states and tribes have greater flexibility in reaching more children and families and with a wider array of services.

  Hoja Informativa: Un Camino Hacia la Ciudadanía Significa Un Paso Seguro a la Edad Adulta

En el 2019, más de 1 en cada 4 niños en EEUU (26 por ciento o aproximadamente 18 millones) vivían con al menos un padre inmigrante. Se estima que más de 5 millones de niños menores de 17 años tienen al menos un padre indocumentado. Cada niño y niña merece un paso seguro a la edad adulta con el apoyo de familias y comunidades amorosas.

  Factsheet: A Pathway to Citizenship Means Safe Passage to Adulthood

More than 1 in 4 (26 percent), or approximately 18 million, U.S. children lived with at least one immigrant parent in 2019. And more than 5 million children ages 17 and under are estimated to have at least one undocumented parent. Every child deserves a successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

  The Build Back Better Act’s Child Tax Credit: How the bill gets us one step closer to a true child allowance

In early September, the House Ways and Means Committee approved their portion of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), which includes and extension of the American Rescue Plan Act’s Child Tax Credit (CTC) through 2025. While this proposal falls short of making the program permanent, the plan includes many substantial and important improvements to the CTC. Unfortunately, these improvements are at risk of being weakened as Congress negotiates the Build Back Better package. Congress must not weaken this plan, as these critical changes are necessary to ensure families are able to rely on and benefit from this program for years to come.

  TANF at 25: A Reflection and Reckoning

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a key economic support program to help families with children who have very low incomes through a variety of services. TANF marks 25 years in August 2021, a landmark which invites both reflection and reckoning.

  Understanding the Expanded Child Tax Credit

The American Rescue Plan includes a significant, one-year expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC). Millions of newly eligible children and their families will benefit from this major expansion, and successful implementation is now key to realizing a significant reduction in child poverty, building racial equity, and creating a public investment for the good of all children. Here’s what you need to know about the expanded CTC.

  What You Need to Know About Rental Assistance: A Brief Background on the Basics

Federal rental assistance is a set of several programs—mostly administered through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Agriculture with support from tax credits— that help families with little or no income cover their housing costs. These programs help in many different ways, but the basic concept is that families with low incomes contribute a certain, sustainable amount of their income to their monthly rent payments and the government covers the rest. In total, these programs help more than 9 million people in 4.6 million households, more than a third of which were households with children.

  What You Need to Know About TANF: A Brief Background on the Basics

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a federal block grant program for states, tribes, and territories designed to help families with a variety of services. States receive the block grant funding and use it to administer programs that provide cash assistance, child care, work supports and activities, child welfare, and more. States also use the funding to help families with children experiencing poverty pay for groceries, rent, diapers, clothing, and other basic necessities. In Fiscal Year 2020, which spans from October 2019 – September 2020, more than 1 million families—including more than 2 million children—received TANF assistance.

  To Reach Every Child, the Child Tax Credit Eligibility Requirements Must Be Changed

To ensure that no child is excluded from the CTC because of their family structure, frequency of moving, or their involvement in other systems, Congress must make critical changes to the definition of “qualifying child” for the purpose of the CTC. To expand eligibility, the CTC should be accessible to all children regardless of their relationship to their caregiver and the bene t should continue to support children and their families as their living arrangements change.

  Billionaires vs. Babies: How Congress Favors the Rich Over Our Children and How We Can Fix It

Over the past several decades, the United States has built a system that favors billionaires over babies and perpetuates economic inequality and racial disparities that harm America’s children. But it doesn’t have to be this way: Here are eight ways Congress could fight inequality through the tax code and invest in children instead of billionaires.

  Understanding the Expanded Child Tax Credit

The American Rescue Plan includes a significant, one-year expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC). Millions of newly eligible children and their families will benefit from this major expansion, and successful implementation is now key to realizing a significant reduction in child poverty, building racial equity, and creating a public investment for the good of all children. Here’s what you need to know about the expanded CTC.

  Family First Prevention Services Act: Implementing the Provisions that Support Kinship Families Checklist

Family First Prevention Services Act makes historic reforms to the child welfare system to better support children, families, and kinship caregivers, and promote a kin-first culture. Many of the reforms have significant implications for connecting children to kinship caregivers and further promoting permanency through kin guardianships. This checklist is designed to help child welfare agency staff take advantage of provisions in the law to engage and support kinship families.

  Child Welfare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which combines a $1.4 trillion year-end funding package with a $900 million dollar COVID-19 relief package. The law contains several important provisions related to the child welfare system.

  Child Poverty in America 2019: National Analysis

Official poverty data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 15, 2020 show nearly 10.5 million children in America lived in poverty in 2019, about 1.4 million fewer than in 2018. The national child poverty rate declined from 16.2 percent in 2018 to 14.4 percent in 2019. Although 2019 data show a decline in poverty numbers, these estimates do not reflect the current realities and heightened disparities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  America’s Schools Provide Much More than Lessons; Children Out of School in America Need Congressional Action Now

When children are not attending school in person, they are not only missing out on vital education that is hard to deliver virtually; they are also abruptly without services they rely on and support from educators and professionals trained to connect them with resources and ensure their most urgent needs are met. As many schools returned to virtual instruction this fall, students are approaching almost a full year without those supports and services—which include access to healthy food, care for their physical and mental health, caring adults tasked with ensuring their safety, and federally mandated supports for marginalized students.

  “Back to School” During a Pandemic: Why Our Children Need Access to Nutritious Food to Learn and Thrive

Child nutrition programs alleviate poverty and hunger, improve child health and well-being, and strengthen development and academic achievement. However, these programs utilize long-standing bene t and eligibility criteria and lengthy reimbursement processes that require providers to cover the costs up front and can be in exible to the growing needs of children and families. This is particularly true during the current pandemic as factors including meal times, meal sites, and delivery are constantly shifting.

  Evaluating 2019 US Census Child Poverty Data in the Wake of COVID-19

On September 15 and 17, the U.S. Census Bureau released national and state-level poverty estimates from 2019. However, these estimates did not adequately capture our present-day realities due to the impacts of COVID-19.

  The Child Welfare Emergency Assistance Act Would Assist Children and Families During the COVID-19 Health Crisis

On July 2, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced the Child Welfare Emergency Assistance Act of 2020 (S. 4172). The bill will provide a much-needed infusion of emergency resources to help the child welfare system adequately respond to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Increase Chafee Funds to Protect and Support Foster Care Youth

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the failure of the child welfare system to appropriately prepare older youth for adulthood. Each year, nearly 20,000 children “age out” of the child welfare system, reaching adulthood without the security, consistency, and support of a permanent family. When children are thrust into adulthood without that support, they have worse outcomes and are confronted with obstacles no young person should face alone. In ordinary times, youth who age out of care experience high rates of homelessness and poor educational attainment; these outcomes are exacerbated by the current crisis. Across the country, youth from foster care are losing their jobs and their homes and are facing serious food and economic insecurity without the support of family, yet Congress has failed to provide them with relief. Congress must act now to provide $500 million in emergency funding for the John H. Chafee Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood to ensure these youth with unique needs are not left behind.

  Housing Is a Racial Justice Crisis: Solutions for Children and Families During COVID and Beyond

Before the COVID-19 crisis hit, millions of children and families, especially families of color, were struggling to afford housing. Housing disparities in America are a matter of racial justice; fair and affordable housing is
out of reach for far too many Black and Brown families who often live in segregated neighborhoods.

  TANF Must Be Strengthened to Fight For Racial Justice and Help Families Afford Their Basic Needs

The pandemic has magnified our nation’s failure to provide robust assistance for children and families in times of crisis. COVID-19 has also laid bare the systemic economic, social, and racial inequities embedded in our unjust systems. Today, communities of color are bearing the brunt of the fatal impacts of these injustices. People of color are more likely to have lost jobs due to COVID, are dying at more rapid rates compared to their white counterparts, and are more likely to live in poverty. As new research shows that the pandemic could cause child poverty rates to rise by 53 percent, especially for children of color, Congress must act now. Authorizing and expanding a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund and making long-term changes to the TANF block grant are more important than ever to make sure children and families can survive this crisis. Families should not have to worry where their next meal will come from or face harsh requirements that were impossible to meet even before this pandemic.

  SNAP Must Be Strengthened to Fight Child Hunger During the Pandemic and Beyond

This pandemic has laid bare the catastrophic consequences of our nation’s failure to address hunger and
poverty, especially for our children.

  The Child Tax Credit Must Be Expanded to Fight Rising Child Poverty

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the consequences of allowing so many children and families in America to live in poverty. Expanding and increasing the Child Tax Credit and creating a new Young Child Tax Credit will help reduce rapidly rising child poverty, provide meaningful assistance for working families, and help stabilize the economy during and beyond this pandemic.

  Children and Families Need $2,000 a Month to Weather This Crisis

Children and families struggling to make ends meet need more than just a one-time payment. Families need a larger and recurring monthly payment of $2,000 a month for every adult and child for the duration of the economic downturn. Families with children are disproportionately feeling the effects of this crisis. We all benefit when children and their families are fully supported.

  Child Poverty in America 2018 State Fact Sheet

State data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 26, 2019 reveal that child poverty remains a crisis across our nation despite progress in some states.

  Child Poverty in America 2018 National Fact Sheet

National data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 10, 2019 reveal that children remain the poorest age group in the nation and children of color are at greatest risk.

  Vaccines: A Guide for Parents

When enough people in a population are vaccinated against an infectious disease, “community immunity” protects the entire population. Community immunity helps protect those who cannot get vaccinated because they are too young, have weakened immune systems, or are part of the small portion of the population on whom vaccines are ineffective.

  Vaccines, Preventable Diseases and Children’s Health

The facts are simple: Vaccines are safe. They are highly effective. They are supported by every major American medical society and government agency and are a routine part of pediatric care. Yet the growing number of VPD outbreaks suggest more must be done to support immunization and halt the spread of serious—and potentially deadly—diseases.

  Family First Transition and Support Act of 2019

CDF joined other national organizations in expressing our support for the Family First Transition and Support Act of 2019 which would provide states and territories with resources and funding flexibility to transition to Family First – enhancing support for parents and relatives who are struggling to care for their children.

  Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm Children

Medicaid is a powerful anti-poverty tool that helps struggling parents get ahead by providing access to health coverage that can help them provide and care for their families. It ensures coverage to 37 million low-income children and children with disabilities. Nearly half of all births are covered by Medicaid. Despite Medicaid’s success,
the growing number of never-before allowed waivers allowing states to require recipients to work will harm children as parents and caregivers lose the health coverage they need to work and care for their children.

  New Opportunities for Kinship Families: Action Steps to Implement the Family First Prevention Services Act in Your Community

This brief, developed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law, Children’s Defense Fund and Generations United, highlights provisions in the Family First Prevention Services Act that help kinship families, along with steps caregivers, advocates, and other leaders can take to help implement the Family First Act. Includes a chart comparing services and supports for kin before and after the Family First Act.

  Gun Violence and School Safety Data: Parent and Child Trends Survey 2018

CDF’s Parent and Child Trends Survey conducted by YouGov with data collected May 8th through May 21st, 2018.

  School Shootings Spark Everyday Worries: Parent and Child Trends Survey 2018

As another school year begins, fear of a school shooting is front and center in the minds of America’s children, outranking common childhood worries like experiencing peer pressure and not fitting in with classmates.

  Child Poverty in America 2017 State Fact Sheet

State data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 13, 2018 reveal that child poverty remains a crisis across our nation despite progress in some states.

  Child Poverty in America 2017 National Fact Sheet

Poverty data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 12, 2018 show roughly 12.8 million America children lived in poverty in 2017, about 450,000 fewer than in 2016.

  Case Study on Reforming School Discipline, Equity, and Justice: Oklahoma City Public Schools Profile

CDF and AASA, the School Superintendents Association, believe that all schools should be welcoming and productive places for children to learn and for teachers to teach. We believe that exclusionary discipline – suspending or expelling a student from school for a disciplinary reason – be used sparingly and as a last resort. Measures can and should be taken to build positive school climates, response to special circumstances of students, prevention student misbehavior, and address violations of school rules in a restorative manner.

  Case Study on Reforming School Discipline, Equity, and Justice: Madison Metropolitan School District Profile

  Case Study on Reforming School Discipline, Equity, and Justice: Broward County Public Schools Profile

  Case Study on Reforming School Discipline, Equity, and Justice: Denver Public Schools Profile

  Leading National Children’s Groups Statement of Principles

  Farm Bill Comparison Fact Sheet 2018

  Keep Families Together Act 2018 Summary

  The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) Reauthorization Fact Sheet

  Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm Children 2018

  Youth First Initiative Resources

  CDF Partners with Youth First to End Youth Incarceration in the U.S.

  Over Forty Years of Vigilance

  The Truth About Guns 2018 Fact Sheet

  Principles for Health Coverage Reform Proposals

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2018 CRS Report

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2018 Detailed Summary

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2018 Full Text

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2018 Implementation Timeline

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2018 Short Summary

  Protect Children Not Guns Fact Sheet – 2016 Gun Deaths

  Analysis of the President’s FY 2019 Budget Proposal

  Senate’s Continuing Resolution Offers New Hope to Children, Families and Communities 2018

  Child Care for Working Families Act Fact Sheet 2017

  National Day of Action to #SaveCHIP! 2018

  Child Poverty in America 2016 State Fact Sheet

  Medicaid Matters for Children in Foster Care Fact Sheet 2017

  Setting the Record Straight on CHIP

  Child Poverty in America 2016 National Fact Sheet

  Extend CHIP for 5 More Years

  Ten Ways the Better Care Reconciliation Act Harms Children and Offers Worse Care 2017

  Why The American Health Care Act Harms Children and Other Vulnerable Groups and Why It Must Be Rejected 2017

  Keep Medicaid Strong for Children 2017 Fact Sheet

  Analysis of the President’s FY 2018 Budget Proposal, Part I: “Skinny” in Stature and Details, But Huge in Harms For Low-income Children and Adults

  Keep Medicaid Strong: Reject Proposals to “Reform” through Block Grant or Per Capita Cap

  Protect the ACA for Children and Families 2017

  Congress Must Not Repeal the Affordable Care Act without a Replacement That Protects Children and Families Fact Sheet 2017

  Keep Children’s Health Coverage Strong: Protect Medicaid! 2017

  Child Poverty in America 2015

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2016 Detailed Summary

  Family First Prevention Services Act 2016 Short Summary

  Family First Act 2016 Fact Sheet

  Child Care Access to Resources for Early-Learning Act Fact Sheet 2016

  The Early Childhood Hunger Imperative

  Every Student Succeeds Act 2015 Foster Care FAQ

  Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS): Final Rule 2016

  Family Stability and Kinship Care Act 2015 Summary

  Ending Child Poverty Now 2015 Talking Points

  Child Poverty in America 2014 State Fact Sheet

  Child Poverty in America 2014 National Fact Sheet

  Medicaid: Celebrating Fifty Years of Health Coverage for Children and Families 2015

  The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion Helps Adults and Children 2015

  Ending Child Poverty Now 2015 Brief

  Top Ten Reasons to Expand Medicaid 2015

  Analysis of FY 2016 House and Senate Budget Resolution

  Title I Portability – A Bad Deal for Poor Children

  Protect Children, Not Guns Fact Sheet 2014

  Positive Behavioral Supports 2014 Overview

  Restorative Justice 2014 Resource Guide

  School Discipline 2014 Resource Guide

  School Discipline Data 2014 Overview

  School Discipline in the Eyes of School Superintendents 2014 Report

  School District Codes of Conduct: Guide for District Leaders 2014

  Positive Behavioral Supports 2014 Resource Guide

  Restorative Justice 2014 Overview

  Six Tips for Communicating Changes to Codes of Conduct 2014

  Funding School Discipline Reform 2014 Resource Guide

  Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act Fact Sheet

  Child Poverty In America 2013 State Analysis

  Child Poverty In America 2013 Fact Sheet

  In-School Suspension Best Practices Fact Sheet 2014

  More of the Same from Rep. Ryan’s “New” Poverty Plan

  Extend Funding for CHIP this Year!

  Investing in Early Childhood Development and Learning

  Strong Start for America’s Children Act 2014 Fact Sheet

  Importance of Early Childhood Development and Learning 2014 Fact Sheet

  Analysis of President Obama’s FY 2015 Budget Proposal

  Child Care and Development Block Grant Act Provides Necessary Changes to Imrpove Quality of Child Care for Children and Families 2014

  Strong Start for America’s Children Act Offers New Hope for Children Birth through Five 2014

  Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) 2014 Fact Sheet

  Reforming the Nation’s Largest Juvenile Justice System

  Government Shut-Down is Affecting Children, as Debt-Ceiling Deadline Grows Closer 2013

  Protect Children, Not Guns 2013 Key Facts

  Making Health Insurance Exchanges Work for Kids

  Ensuring Adequate Marketplace Provider Networks

  Child Poverty in America 2012

  Health Reform – Gearing Up for 2014 Fact Sheet

  SNAP Works for Children and America 2013 Fact Sheet

  Analysis of President Obama’s FY 2014 Budget Proposal

  Uninterrupted Scholars Act 2013 FAQ

  Uninterrupted Scholars Act Signed Into Law 2013

  Perspectives on Fostering Connections: A Series of White Papers on the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

  Gun Deaths in the States, 2000-2010

  Ensuring Every Child a Safe Start through Common Sense Gun Safety Laws 2013

  Essential Health Benefits Fact Sheet

  Protect Medicaid for Children 2012

  Budget Principles Fact Sheet 2012

  Uninterrupted Scholars Act 2012 Summary

  Child Poverty in America 2011

  Child Poverty in the States 2011

  Increasing Access to Full-Day Kindergarten 2012 Fact Sheet

  Young Families Struggle in the Face of Falling Incomes, Dramatic Increases in Inequality 2012

  Analysis of President Obama’s FY 2013 Budget Proposal

  Medicaid Myths and Facts 2011 Fact Sheet

  Fostering Connections to Success in Education Amendment Promotes Educational Stability for Children in Foster Care 2011

  Child Poverty in America 2010

  The Deterioration in the Labor Market Fortunes of America’s Young Adults During the Lost Decade of 2000-2010 Policy Brief

  The Impact of Rising Poverty on the Nation’s Young Families and Their Children, 2000-2010 Policy Brief

  Trends in the Levels and Distribution of the Annual Incomes Among Young Families, 1973 to 2010: Deteriorating Real Incomes Amidst Steeply Rising Inequality 2011 Policy Brief

  Changes in the Weekly and Annual Earnings of Young Adults from 1979 – 2010: Progress and Setbacks Amidst Widening Inequality 2011 Policy Brief

  The Continued Collapse of the Nation’s Teen Summer Job Market: Who Worked in the Summer of 2011?

  Disparities Between Black and White Children 2011

  6.5 Million Children Benefit from Social Security Fact Sheet

  Balanced Budget Amendment Fact Sheet 2011

  Number of Children in Foster Care Continues to Decline

  Medicaid Works for Children and for America 2011

  SNAP Works for Children and America 2011

  Full Day Kindergarten: Why Does It Matter?

  Full-Day Kindergarten 2014 Fact Sheet

  Priorities for ESEA Reauthorization Fact Sheet 2011

  Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Federal Education Discussions

  Budget Tradeoffs Fact Sheet 2011

  Summary of CDF State Office Commitments to Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan’s Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge

  Who are the Uninsured Children, 2010

  New Investments to Help Children and Families: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

  Number of Children in Foster Care Declines 2010

  Helping Connect Children and Youth in Foster Care to Permanent Family and Relationships through Family Finding and Engagement 2010

  Asthma Health Fact Sheet

  Child Nutrition Fact Sheet 2010

  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2010 Detailed Summary

  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2010 Kinship Summary

  Mental Health Fact Sheet 2010

  Guardianship Assistance Program Checklist

  Identification of and Notice to Relatives Checklist

  Sample Guardianship Assistance Agreement

  Five Key Questions to Assess the Fiscal Impact of the Guardianship Assistance Program 2010

  Child Nutrition Reauthorization Fact Sheet 2010

  Making the Case for the Guardian Assistance Program

  Myths and Facts Related to Use of the Guardianship Assistance Program 2010

  Guide to Using the Guardianship Assistance Agreement 2010

  Health Reform for Young Adults Q & A: Dependent Coverage Provision

  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2008 Key Considerations for Implementing the Notice Requirement

  The Need for Educational Stability for Children in Foster Care: Recommendations for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization

  New Program Instruction: Children Already With Guardians Eligible for KinGAP Assistance

  Health Reform: Yes or No? We Say Yes!

  Analysis of President Obama’s FY 2011 Budget Proposal

  Priorities for Ensuring that the Reauthorization of ESEA Adequately Addresses the Needs of Poor and Vulnerable Children

  Sample State Legislation Needed to Implement the Federal Kinship Guardianship Assistance Option Under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act

  Health Reform Holiday Discussion Guide Placemat 2009

  Child Poverty in America 2007

  Latino Child Health 2009 Fact Sheet

  Latino Children’s Health and Health Status 2008 Fact Sheet

  Who Are the Uninsured Children, 2008

  Health Care Reform Case Study

  Without Improvements Health Reform Could Leave Millions of Children Worse Off 2009

  Black Child Health Fact Sheet 2009

  Youth PROMISE Act 2009 Summary

  Help Children Being Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives and Their Relative Caregivers by Expanding and Establishing Kinship Navigator Programs 2009 Fact Sheet

  Health Reform Legislation Must Include Priorities for Children

  Health Coverage for All Children and Pregnant Women Now 2009 Fact Sheet

  Disparities in Children’s Health and Health Coverage 2009 Fact Sheet

  New Economic Recovery Law: Resources to Help Children and the Economy

  Health Care Reform for Children – Going Beyond CHIP 2009 Fact Sheet

  Conversation Guide for Children’s Health Coverage: How to Discuss It and Dispel Myths

  Kinship Care Resource Kit

  Kinship Care Resource Kit – Communities with Kinship Families

  Kinship Care Resource Kit for Community and Faith-Based Organizations

  Kinship Care Resource Kit: Helping Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children

  Kinship Care Resource Kit: National Kinship Care Resources

  Health Coverage for All Children Campaign Talking Points

  President-Elect Barack Obama’s Plans for America’s Children

  Children in the States 2008 All States

  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2010 Short Summary

  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act 2008 Side-by-Side Comparison of Bills

  Invest in Every Child: Immediate Priorities for All Children 2008

  All Children Need Health Coverage Now 2009 Fact Sheet

  The All Healthy Children Act: The Best Policy for Children Fact Sheet

  Health Coverage for All Children Campaign 2008 Fact Sheet

  Child Poverty In America 2008

  Trends in Child Poverty and Extreme Child Poverty 2008

  Rising Health Care Costs Fact Sheet

  Analysis of President Bush’s FY 2009 Budget Proposal

  Polling Data: Americans Support Health Coverage for Children

  SCHIP Reauthorization 2007 Timeline

  All Healthy Children Act 2007 Summary En Espanol

  All Healthy Children Act 2007 Full Summary

  Analysis of President Bush’s FY 2008 Budget Proposal

  Earned Income Tax Credit Fact Sheet

  Children Born Poor in 2006

  Defining Poverty and Why It Matters for Children 2005

  Child Abuse and Neglect Fact Sheet 2005

  Over 13 Million Children Face Food Insecurity 2005

  Child Care Issue Basics 2005 Fact Sheet

  Increasing the Minimum Wage: An Issue of Children’s Well-Being 2005 Report

  Child Tax Credit Fact Sheet 2005

  High School Exit Exams – Quick Facts

  Teacher Quality Quick Facts 2004

  The Road to Dropping Out 2004

  Recommendations for Strengthening Courts 2004 Report

  Misidentification of Minority Youth in Special Education Fact Sheet

  Improving Education for Homeless and Foster Children with Disabilities in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act Summary 2004

  Educational Resource Disparities for Minority and Low-Income Children

  Chronology of Congressional Child Welfare Financing Proposals from 1980-2003

  What are Community Partnership for Protecting Children? 2003

  Number of Black Children in Extreme Poverty Hits Record High

  Infants and Toddlers Are Particularly Vulnerable: Good Child Care and Early Education Can Play a Vital Role in Their Development 2003 Fact Sheet

  Prekindergarten Initiatives: Efforts to Help Children Enter School Ready to Succeed

  Ensure Fair Discipline in IDEA 2003

  School-Age Child Care: Keeping Children Safe and Helping Them Learn While Their Families Work 2003

  Child Care Assistance 2003 Issue Brief

  Expanding Opportunities to Participate in Quality Programs for Children with Disabilities and Other Special Needs Fact Sheet 2003