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  • Marian Wright Edelman 04/01/11
    Child Watch® Column: "Celebrating and Protecting Health Reform for Children"
    A year ago President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Affordable Care Act"), guaranteeing access to health coverage for 32 million uninsured people in America including 95 percent of all children. Racial minorities are disproportionately uninsured today and the Affordable Care Act will have a particularly positive impact in communities of color if allowed to go forward.
  • 03/30/11
    Education Glossary of Terms
    Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Federal Education Discussions
  • 03/30/11
    ESEA Guiding Principles and Chart
    CDF supports the administration's ESEA blueprint for reform but believes bore is needed for the most vulnerable children.
  • 03/30/11
    CDF's Priorities for ESEA Reauthorization
    CDF's Priorities for ESEA Reauthorization
  • Marian Wright Edelman 03/25/11
    Child Watch® Column: "Revisiting Marks, Mississippi"
    During her research for the Children's Defense Fund's recent report "Held Captive": Child Poverty in America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Cass visited the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban Long Island, New York to profile three different kinds of child poverty. Her trip to Quitman County, Mississippi covered sadly familiar ground: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visited the Black sharecropping community in Marks, the seat of Quitman County, in the summer of 1966 to preach at the funeral of a friend, and Marks was later chosen as the starting point of the mule train that left Mississippi for Washington, D.C. during the Poor People's Campaign.
  • 03/21/11
    Budget Watch: Budget Trade Offs
    Budget Watch: Budget Trade Offs
  • Marian Wright Edelman 03/18/11
    Child Watch® Column: "Poor Children: Stranded at Sea"
    As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Cass prepared the recent Children's Defense Fund's report "Held Captive": Child Poverty in America, she traveled to the Mississippi Delta, the ravaged cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Louisiana, and the birthplace of the suburban American dream in Long Island, New York to see several different sides of contemporary American child poverty. Despite the different circumstances children in these diverse communities faced, Cass found that there was something very familiar about the effects of child poverty everywhere she looked.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 03/11/11
    Child Watch® Column: "“The New Jim Crow”"
    "Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy . . . Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole."
  • Marian Wright Edelman 03/04/11
    Child Watch® Column: "Deamonte Driver's Continuing Legacy"
    Four years ago this February, an entire community was devastated in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., when 12-year-old seventh grader Deamonte Driver died after complications from a tooth abscess. His mother Alyce, who worked at low-paying jobs, had searched for a dentist to treat Deamonte's toothache who would accept Medicaid, but she was unsuccessful.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 02/25/11
    Child Watch® Column: "A Call to Black Families"
    The distinguished theologian Howard Thurman once described an oak tree in his childhood yard with leaves that each autumn turned yellow and died but stayed on the branches all winter. Nothing—neither wind, storm, sleet, nor snow—dislodged these dead leaves from the apparently lifeless branches. Dr. Thurman came to understand that the business of the oak tree during the long winter was to hold on to the dead leaves before turning them loose in spring so that new buds—the growing edge—could begin to unfold.
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