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  • Black and White: Black Children Compared to White Children 01/13/11
    Black and White: Black Children Compared to White Children
    CDF produced a one-page document comparing Black and White children in the crucial areas of poverty, family structure, health, education and the criminal justice system.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 01/07/11
    Child Watch® Column: "Health Reform Under Threat"
    In 2010, there was finally good news for millions of uninsured children and families when the President and Congress took a major step towards ensuring affordable and comprehensive health coverage for millions of children and families in America. With the passage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Affordable Care Act), more than 35 million Americans including more than 95 percent of children will have access to the critical health coverage they need to survive and thrive.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 12/31/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Celebrating Kwanzaa, Celebrating Community"
    The New Year is marked with many kinds of celebrations, but for Black families and communities who celebrate Kwanzaa from December 26-January 1, every New Year's Day marks a renewed dedication to community. Kwanzaa is a unique celebration because it is not a religious or a national holiday but a cultural one, and it doesn't celebrate a person or an event but a set of ideas.
  • Center for Labor Market Studies-Northeastern University Study on Youth Employment 12/31/10
    Summary of Findings Center for Labor Market Studies-Northeastern University Study on Youth Employment
    Summary- Andy Sum, professor of economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, conducted a study that found the American dream and employment opportunities vanishing for many Black young people.
  • Center for Labor Market Studies-Northeastern University Study on Youth Employment 12/31/10
    Center for Labor Market Studies-Northeastern University Study on Youth Employment
    Andy Sum, professor of economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, conducted a study that found the American dream and employment opportunities vanishing for many Black young people.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 12/24/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Two Christmas Eve Lessons"
    In the story shared with me about my dear friend Bill Coffin, it was Christmas Eve and the pews at New York City's Riverside Church were packed. The Christmas pageant was underway and had come to the point at which the innkeeper was to turn away Mary and Joseph with the resounding line, "There's no room at the inn!"
  • Held Captive: Child Poverty in America 12/20/10
    Held Captive: Child Poverty in America
    "Held Captive": Child Poverty in America, a new report commissioned and published by the Children's Defense Fund, found that the plight for poor children in Mississippi is so dire, enriching experiences so meager and government aid so inadequate and spotty that after school tutoring and reading programs in Quitman County and two other Delta counties are funded by foreign aid, a grant from the Bernard van Leer Foundation of the Netherlands.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 12/17/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Give the Gift of Caring and Sharing This Season"
    The average American family spends hundreds of dollars on gifts during this season. It's wonderful to share special times and gifts with friends and family, but for many adults this holy season has been commercialized and become defined by shopping for the "in" toys, clothes, and other material gifts we think our children want. And while it's fine to give children these things when we can, we should never forget to give them the more important gifts of ourselves—our time, attention, and family rituals—that children need.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 12/10/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Privatized Prison Industry"
    A few months ago a group of earnest and determined stockholders traveled together by bus from Washington, D.C. to Nashville, Tennessee to attend a shareholders' meeting. On the surface, it sounded like a fairly ordinary trip, but this was an unusual group on an extraordinary mission.
  • Marian Wright Edelman 12/03/10
    Child Watch® Column: "Twenty Years of Beating the Odds"
    How does a child endure unspeakable hardship and still manage to succeed? What does it mean to save rather than give up on a child? When you read the stories of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF)'s Beat the Odds® award recipients, you'll find the answers. Too often we hear about teens getting into trouble, dropping out of school, getting involved with drugs, crime, and gangs, or becoming parents too soon.
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