Never Again: America’s Unfulfilled Promise
Seven years ago today, twenty first graders walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School but never walked out.
Read MoreLegislation Should Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Rise in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Vaccines are essential to protecting children, families, and communities, and herd immunity is especially critical for vulnerable children with medical conditions as well as infants too young to be immunized. To maintain and increase vaccine coverage that will ensure necessary herd immunity, parents must have confidence in the safety and efficacy of vaccines, exemptions must be restricted, and existing exemptions must be monitored.
Read MoreAddressing Our Nation’s Alarming Maternal Mortality Rates
Each year, an estimated 700 women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. Since the CDC began tracking maternal mortality rates in 1987, the United States has seen a sharp increase in pregnancy-related deaths, most of which are entirely preventable.
Read MoreOngoing Attacks on SNAP
Today, the Trump administration published a final rule that will weaken SNAP by imposing time limits and work requirements. By USDA’s own estimates, this change will result in nearly 700,000 people losing benefits. Earlier this year, CDF urged the Administration to withdraw this rule as well as other recent proposals to take food from hungry families.
Read More30 Years Later, the US Has Yet to Commit to Protecting Children’s Human Rights
On this day in 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, spelling out basic rights children should have everywhere. Despite the Convention's essential role in improving the lives of children around the world, the US remains the only UN member who has yet to ratify it.
Read MoreDeclining Investments in Children Threaten to Destroy Our National and Economic Security
“Might it be that this land with all of its richness, with all of its opportunity for true greatness, its opportunity to present itself before the world as what a nation ought to be, might now be sowing the seeds of its very destruction in abandonment of its children?”
Read MoreDACA Termination Flouts this Nation’s Promise to Children
More than a quarter of a million children have at least one parent who is a DACA recipient. Canceling DACA increases the risk of family separation and is in direct contrast to the fundamental promise of the child welfare system that every child should have the opportunity to grow up in a safe, stable and loving family. The Supreme Court must keep this in mind when weighing the arguments it heard yesterday.
Read MoreFamily First Transition Act honors MaryLee Allen
The passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First) in February of 2018 represented the first major modernization of the child welfare system in decades and the potential for transformative change.
Read MorePublic Schools Are Failing 8th Graders—But CDF Freedom Schools Can Help
Last week, the National Assessment Governing Board released the results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as The Nation’s Report Card.
Read MoreHHS proposed rule will hurt children
Last Friday, the Trump administration released draft language for a proposed rule that would remove important Obama-era non-discrimination regulations. The rule would reverse a regulation stating that “no person otherwise eligible will be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination,” in any program that was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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