Child Poverty
Families Deserve a Robust, Permanent Simplified Tax Filing Option
It’s time for the IRS to create a permanent, robust simplified filing process, so all families can easily access crucial programs like the CTC and EITC.
Blog
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Education
From One Month to Every Day – Celebrate Black History!
This month and every month, we celebrate Black history. Teaching Black history requires honest teaching about white supremacy and oppression alongside the long legacy of Black genius, innovation, creativity, and resistance.
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Response to Texas leaders’ statements to deny gender-affirming care for trans children
America's children deserve the freedom to be their authentic selves. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a non-binding legal opinion deeming pediatric gender-affirming care child abuse.
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Child Health
New Report Shows Half of Children are Covered by Medicaid. States Must Ensure These Children Don’t Lose Coverage.
Any gaps in health coverage are harmful for children and their families. Our partners at Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) just released a new report with strategies for states to ensure children don’t lose coverage when the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement ends.
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Child Health
WIC promotes racial equity, reduces infant mortality, and increases use of preventive health care
With increased national attention and resources directed to the maternal and infant health crisis in our country, that is, women in the United States remaining the most likely to die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth in the developed world, we continue to seek solutions not only improve outcomes but tackle disparities.
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Education
Let the Evolution Begin!
The new CDF Leadership Development and Organizing Team has brought a fresh perspective to our historic calling: equipping the next generation of child advocates.
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Immigration
Children Need Safety, Security, and Stability: How Immigration Enforcement Policies Harm Children
At the heart of this mission is CDF’s work at the intersection of child well-being and racial justice. For children in immigrant families specifically, this work involves child-focused advocacy on immigration and other intersecting policies that impact their development and well-being.
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Be a Data Champion! Introducing CDF-Ohio's Data Resource Toolkit
When utilized responsibly, data can be a powerful contributor to social and systems change, stre ngthening the foundations of our democracy by bolstering more equitable access to opportunity and information, reinforcing greater accountability, and driving decision-making for the greater good of all children, families, and communities.
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Child Health
Students Speak Up in the Age of Omicron — And You Can, Too
Students are demanding more protections amidst another COVID surge and renewed debates about returning to in-person classes this semester. They are coping with the added stress of facing exposure to Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant which spreads rapidly.
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Child Health
Getting Care to Children & Families: School-Based, Community-Connected Health
According to a 2021 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn has disproportionately affected people of color, young adults, women, parents of young children, and low-income workers.
Featured Blog Series
For Our Children
From the desk of President and CEO Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, discover a new take on child well-being and advocacy. Read to learn more about shaping conversations, policies, and actions for improving the lives of our nation's children and youth.
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