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Statement: President Trump’s Latest Budget Abandons Millions of Children and Hard-Working Families Across the Country

President Trump’s FY2021 budget proposal abandons millions of children and hard-working families across the country that rely on the programs that the White House proposes [...]

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New Report: The State of America’s Children Is Shameful

The latest data illustrates the harmful impacts of our national policy failures on children—especially children of color Today, the Children’s Defense Fund released the latest [...]

Health

Leading Children’s Health Groups Oppose New Federal Guidance on Medicaid

For Immediate Release: January 30, 2020 Media Contacts: American Academy of Pediatrics: Jamie Poslosky (202-724-3301; jposlosky@aap.org) Leading Children’s Health Groups Oppose New Federal Guidance on [...]

Health

Leading Children’s Health and Medical Groups Respond to South Carolina Waiver

Media contacts: Georgetown University Center for Children & Families: Catherine Hope (202-687-1058; Catherine.Hope@georgetown.edu) American Academy of Pediatrics: Jamie Poslosky (202-724-3301; jposlosky@aap.org) For immediate release: Thursday, [...]

Ending Child Poverty

Latest Data Shows Continued Child Poverty Crisis Across America

As fewer states saw reductions in child poverty than in previous year, millions of children continue to grow up in poverty The Children’s Defense Fund [...]

Ending Child Poverty

New Census Data Reveals Continued Child Poverty Crisis in America

About 1 in 6 children live in poverty, with children of color disproportionately impacted by America’s failure to act About 1 in 6 children in [...]

Health

Statement from the Children’s Defense Fund: Significant Increase in Uninsured Children is Alarming and Must Be Halted

The most recent Census data released today shows that after decades of hard-won progress expanding health coverage to the vast majority of America’s children, we [...]

Immigration

Statement from the Children’s Defense Fund: Reckless and immoral Public Charge rule will harm millions of children

The Children’s Defense Fund condemns in the strongest possible terms the finalized Department of Homeland Security Public Charge rule announced today. This regulation is reckless, [...]

Immigration

Statement from the Children’s Defense Fund: Trump administration’s actions to separate immigrant families will do lasting harm to children

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 [...]

Health

Leading Children’s Health and Medical Groups React to Staggering Decline in Children’s Enrollment in Public Health Insurance Coverage

May 7, 2019 Media contacts: American Academy of Pediatrics: Jamie Poslosky (202-724-3301; jposlosky@aap.org) Georgetown University Center for Children & Families: Catherine Hope (202-687-1058; Catherine.Hope@georgetown.edu) Leading [...]

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