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Children's Caucus Panel: Promoting and Protecting Child Welfare During COVID-19 and Beyond

June 9, 2020 | Ohio
Health Education Standards: Setting an Educational Framework for Ohio’s Children to Lead Healthy Lives

June 9, 2020 | Ohio
Child Poverty

New Analysis from CDF: TANF Must Be Strengthened to Fight For Racial Justice and Help Families Afford Their Basic Needs

We as a nation are weathering a tough storm, and low-income children and families, especially families of color, are carrying a disproportionate load of the health and economic burden. As new research shows that this pandemic could cause child poverty rates to rise by 53 percent, especially for children of color, Congress must act now. Here’s where the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program comes in.

June 8, 2020 | National
Child Poverty

The Child Care is Essential Act Will Ensure Desperately Needed Relief for Child Care

CDF will continue to join the call for immediate relief to ensure child care settings and families can weather this crisis – and we are proud to endorse the Child Care is Essential Act which will help get us there. Without this funding, parents will not have the care they need to go back to work, employers will be unable to restart without workers, and our economic recovery will be jeopardized. The child care system needs to be funded like the necessity it is for families, businesses, and our economy.

June 5, 2020 | National
Child Health

The Two Deadly Diseases Plaguing Our Nation—and Our Children

We must do better and stand up for our Black children if we are to achieve our mission to leave no child behind. We must fight for a system that treats Black children and families fairly, equally, and justly. We must commit to ending child poverty and creating a society that values the lives of all children by providing equitable, affordable, and high-quality education, health care, nutrition, and housing to all families. We will not stop fighting until we have dismantled systems of oppression and institutional racism and until our country values the lives of Black children just as much as White children.

June 4, 2020 | National
Child Health

Join us for Virtual Town Halls on the disparate impact of COVID-19 on minority populations

June 3, 2020 | Ohio
Statement by Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio

June 3, 2020 | Ohio
Our Nation's Future

June 2, 2020 | New York
Child Health

"How Do I Access P-EBT?" A Guide for Families

June 2, 2020 | Texas
Child Welfare

Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 6/1/20

Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunities.

June 1, 2020 | Texas

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