The Trump administration recently sidestepped Congress and issued a proposed rule that would result in more than 3 million people losing food assistance and more than 500,000 children losing their automatic eligibility for free school meals.
Read MoreFor too many families trying to get by in America, work doesn’t pay. More than a third of the 12.8 million poor children in this country live in families with at least one full-time, year-round worker and, in total, one in nine full-time workers are paid wages that leave them in poverty.
Read MoreOn July 30th Medicaid turns 54! For more than fifty years, the guarantee of Medicaid has been a lifeline for tens of millions of children, people with disabilities and low-income seniors. Today, it is the largest health insurer for our nation’s children, providing comprehensive, affordable health coverage for more than 1 in 3 children, including nearly half of children with special health care needs.
Read MoreVaccines are safe. They are highly effective. They are supported by every major American medical society and government agency and are a routine part of pediatric care. But if vaccines are safe and effective, why aren’t all children vaccinated?
Read MoreAmnesty International USA this week released a harrowing report on the conditions at the Homestead facility, which houses children who have traveled alone to the U.S. in search of safety.
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Dr. Cheasty Anderson is Senior Policy Associate with Children’s Defense Fund-Texas. Over the past several months, she has been helping lead CDF-TX’s efforts to organize and take action on behalf of migrant children and families.
Read MoreWe hate that we need to say this again, but we’ll say it again: We are horrified by and condemn the Trump administration’s imminent plans to conduct mass deportation roundups of immigrant families, which will do real and lasting harm to countless children.
Read MoreIn January of this year, against the backdrop of a dramatic shortage of foster and adoptive homes, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to South Carolina allowing agencies there to discriminate against people applying to be foster and adoptive parents on the basis of religion.
Read MoreToo often, when a politician takes center stage, poverty doesn’t. During the 2016 election, none of the 26 presidential debates focused on poverty. In fact, it’s been more than 30 years since presidential candidates were asked how they would address child poverty on a debate stage. An entire generation of children has grown up in poverty while our leaders have remained silent.
Read MoreThe Children’s Defense Fund is proud to be among the advocacy organizations who today included our voice in a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that uplifts this powerful message: Employment discrimination against LGBTQ people harms children. The brief, submitted by pro bono counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, urges the Court to rule in favor of LGBTQ employees who have confronted workplace discrimination.
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