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Early Childhood & Child Care Research Data & Publications

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04/22/13

Overview of President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal

A breakdown and analysis of the President's 2014 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.

04/03/13

Children in the States Factsheets 2013

These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in the states.

02/01/13

Full-Day Kindergarten in the States

CDF has taken a snap shot of the status of kindergarten in America in order to focus the national, state and local dialogue on the missing half-step of our public school K-12 system. View our interactive map and download your state???s Full-Day K factsheet.

11/13/12

Portrait of Inequality 2012 - Black Children in America

CDF produced "Portrait of Inequality 2012", a report showing the gross inequalities facing Black children compared to White children, across all critical indicators of wellbeing.

07/22/12

The State of America's Children® 2012 Handbook

The State of America’s Children® Handbook provides key national information in a range of areas, as well as state tables showing how children in your state are faring and how your state compares to other states in protecting children. A more comprehensive version will be posted on the web as new data becomes available later this year as part our State of America's Children® annual report.

04/13/12

Increasing Access to Full-Day K

CDF Position Statement on Access to Full-Day Kindergarten

03/01/12

Analysis of President Obama’s FY 2013 Budget Proposal

A breakdown and analysis of the President's 2013 budget proposal as it relates to children and families.

07/18/11

State of America's Children® 2011 Report

CDF's State of America's Children Report is a compilation of the most recent and reliable national and U.S. state research data on child poverty, children's health, child welfare, youth at risk, childhood and youth education, and other key child indicators.

07/15/11

Child Watch® Column: "The State of America's Children"

The Children's Defense Fund has just released a new report, The State of America's Children 2011, which paints a disturbing portrait of child needs across our country. With rampant unemployment, housing foreclosures, homelessness, hunger, and massive looming federal and state budget cuts, children's well-being is in great jeopardy. One in five children is poor and children are our nation's poorest age group.

06/14/11

Full Day Kindergarten: Why Does It Matter?

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core Standards, expecting kindergarten children to master specific skills.

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