On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that weakens a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act. The legislation, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, eliminated legal barriers that once kept thousands of African Americans across the country from voting.
The federal government estimates that its proposed rule change could threaten the housing of 36,000 eligible children living in immigrant and mixed-status households nationwide. Nearly a quarter of impacted families live in Texas.
CDF-Ohio’s report shows during the 2024-2025 school year, Black, non-Hispanic students were four and a half times more likely than White students to experience exclusionary discipline in Ohio.
As gun violence remains a leading cause of death for Ohio’s youth, CDF-Ohio urges lawmakers to reverse this trend by investing in community-based interventions and enacting Child Access Prevention mandates.
The child well-being and early learning experts will strengthen CDF’s board governance and policy advocacy.
‘All children deserve to grow up in safe communities’: CDF demands Congress stop funding for family-disrupting tactics.
Event comes after United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred five-year-old Liam Ramos of Minneapolis to its detention center in Dilley, south of San Antonio, last week.
Courts and communities must speak up to rollback punitive, political attack on child care.
Youth advocates and local faith leaders will discuss attacks on childhood and call on federal, state lawmakers to fight cuts and federal law enforcement surge as we seek to create a Minnesota where all children thrive.
On Friday, CDF President & CEO Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson spoke out against the Trump administration’s use of force in immigration enforcement at a press conference outside the White House in Washington, D.C.