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Child Health

National Paid Family and Medical Leave is an Important Promise to Children

Being there isn’t negotiable. National paid family and medical leave is one building block in a stack of policies, including the Child Tax Credit and high-quality, affordable child care, that create a solid foundation for children to grow and thrive. Congress must raise the pillars of stronger, better, and more inclusive national paid family and medical leave in Build Back Better--and beyond.

November 18, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Urges the House to Pass the Build Back Better Act

The Build Back Better Act will boost families’ economic stability and reduce racial inequities in income, housing, education, and health care that harm Black and brown children every day. By passing this critical legislation, we are finally meaningfully investing in our children and families.

Child Poverty

Expanded Child Tax Credit Has Improved Overall Financial Stability

The expanded federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) has reduced families’ financial stress, helped them afford necessities, and allowed about one in four of those receiving monthly payments to work more hours outside of the home, according to a national poll conducted by Ipsos Research and released today by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).

November 17, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Calls on Congress to Extend the USDA's Waiver Authority to Ensure Child Nutrition Programs Can Continue to Operate

CDF joined other leading child advocacy organizations to call on Congress to further extend USDA’s nationwide waiver authority to September 30, 2022 to give USDA the flexibility needed to respond to the pandemic as well as its aftermath, and to ensure that the federal child nutrition programs continue to operate and provide healthy snacks and meals to students.

Child Poverty

Investing in Our Other Infrastructure

November 12, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF-NY Sign-On Letter to Reduce Child Poverty in Build Back Better Act (with Signatures)

As faith-based and child advocacy organizations from across New York, we write to you today to thank you for your strong leadership in bringing about the American Rescue Plan’s transformational expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) – and to implore you to continue to center the needs of New York’s marginalized children and families by making the expanded CTC permanent, fully inclusive of all immigrant children and fully refundable in the final Build Back Better Act. Additionally, we ask that you support a final version of the Build Back Better Act that includes paid family and medical leave.

Child Poverty

Child Poverty

National Paid Family and Medical Leave is an Important Promise to Children

CDF Urges the House to Pass the Build Back Better Act

Expanded Child Tax Credit Has Improved Overall Financial Stability

CDF Calls on Congress to Extend the USDA's Waiver Authority to Ensure Child Nutrition Programs Can Continue to Operate

Investing in Our Other Infrastructure

CDF-NY Sign-On Letter to Reduce Child Poverty in Build Back Better Act (with Signatures)

CDFNY Ampliación del Crédito Tributario por Hijos (Noviembre de 2021)

Child Tax Credit is Helping Ohio Children go to School Fed, Healthy, and Ready to Learn

God Help Us to End Poverty Now—Beginning With Our 11.6 Million Poor Children

CDFNY Child Tax Credit FAQs (Updated November 2021)

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