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Juvenile Justice 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.

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.

11/13/12

Portrait of Inequality 2012 - Hispanic Children in America

The economic crisis of the last five years has pushed Hispanic children and youth deeper and deeper into an abyss of poverty, hunger, homelessness and despair. Hispanic children and youth continue to face multiple risks from birth and throughout life that increase the danger of their becoming part of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® crisis that leads to dead end lives.

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.

05/04/12

Child Watch® Column: "Poison in America"

The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm. Already this year several horrendous hate crimes, possible hate crimes, and crimes committed by people with ties to hate groups have received national attention.

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.

04/29/11

Child Watch® Column: "Judge Patricia Martin: Family Matters"

The Honorable Patricia Martin, who serves as the Presiding Judge of the Child Protection Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, is the president-elect of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In this key role she is devoted to helping change children's lives. She previously chaired the Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial Conference Study Committee on Juvenile Justice, and spent a decade as an assistant Cook County Public Defender.

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