What a Continuing Resolution Means for America’s Children and Youth
“It's time for our leaders to put aside partisanship and work toward a full federal budget”
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A Child Shall Lead: 2023 Children’s Sabbaths
Many of us are familiar with old sayings like, “Children should be seen and not heard,” or “Stay in a child’s place.” While it may be easy to recall these sayings from our own childhoods, each confers something of a secondary status upon children in our families, our communities, and our nation.
Read MoreAlarming Surge in Child Poverty Rates in 2022: Urgent Calls for Action
Last week, the Census Bureau released the U.S. poverty data for 2022 using two different measures: the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) and the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). Children’s Defense Fund is disheartened to learn that the SPM child poverty rate has more than doubled from 5.1% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022—that is more than 5 million more children living in poverty as a direct result of policy choices.
Read MoreLabor day is coming up, but what are we celebrating?
This Labor Day, while we commemorate the movement that brought us workplace safety standards, the minimum wage, weekends and much more, we must also [...]
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For Our Children: Back to School
As we find inspiration in history, we are challenged to make progress for young people in the present.
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For Our Children: National Day of Social Action
In more than 120 planned events from coast to coast, thousands of CDF Freedom Schools Scholars pushed for more gun violence prevention efforts as they told the world: #YouthArentBulletproof.
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For Our Children
When young Black and Brown children and youth see their stories in books—when they read about families like theirs, from neighborhoods like their own—they learn more effectively.
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SCOTUS Affirmative Action decision leaves Young People on their Own, But Not Alone
With the increasing diversity of young people in America ‘affirmative action’ in every facet of public life is more important now than ever. What the Supreme Court has made clear is that the responsibility is ours. We, the community of advocates, activists, organizations, faith leaders and community champions must take affirmative, assertive, and even aggressive action to build a nation where all people can thrive and ‘let America be America again.’
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Children’s Defense Fund calls on Senate to introduce fully inclusive Child Tax Credit Legislation – June 29, 2023
A child’s well-being is tightly connected to their family’s financial stability. An analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) quantifies the potential effects of inaction, indicating that Congress’s failure to extend the CTC would send 10 million children into poverty or slip them deeper into poverty.
Read MoreJuneteenth: Knowing our history
Juneteenth marks one crucial point in time, but also reminds us to sustain the liberation efforts that made the events of June 19, 1865 possible. CDF embraces that charge today and everyday as we build community with you so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.
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