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Children’s Defense Fund Responds to President Biden’s Build Back Better Framework

“President Biden’s framework brings us one step closer to a historic, essential, and long-overdue investment in our country’s children and families. We’re poised to boost families’ economic stability and reduce racial inequities in income, housing, education, and health care that harm Black and brown children every day. We appreciate the countless child advocates, parents, friends in the White House, and champions in Congress who have fought for decades to bring us to this point."

October 29, 2021 | National

Child Health

Centering Youth Voices at New York City’s Polls: 2021 Voter Issue Guide

As New Yorkers cast their ballots this Fall, supporting policies and platforms that prioritize child, youth and family wellbeing is critical. #VoteBecause the needs of the youngest New Yorkers and their families must be centered on Election Day – and every day.

Child Poverty

Redeeming the Soul of America Requires Congress to Build Back Better for our Most Vulnerable Families

There will be dire consequences to New York’s – and America’s – soul and future if it fails to generate the needed political will in the Senate and White House to support the House’s budget reconciliation package and enact a permanent, inclusive and fully refundable Child Tax Credit.

October 29, 2021 | New York

Child Poverty

CDF Urges Congress to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis and its Devastating Impact on Children

CDF urges Congress to prioritize robust investments within the Build Back Better Act for housing vouchers, public housing, and the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) because these vital housing programs most directly meet the needs of the poorest and most marginalized children and youth in our country.

October 26, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Urges Congress to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis and its Devastating Impact on Children

CDF urges Congress to prioritize robust investments within the Build Back Better Act for housing vouchers, public housing, and the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) because these vital housing programs most directly meet the needs of the poorest and most marginalized children and youth in our country.

Child Poverty

Community Organizations Band Together to Help Families Access, Navigate Expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC)

October 21, 2021 | Ohio

Child Poverty

CDF-NY Children's Sabbaths ® 2021 Call to Action

On this 30th Annual National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths ® Celebration, the Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) urges you to take action for our State’s most vulnerable children and families.

Child Poverty

CDF Joins Call to Extend USDA's Nationwide Waiver Authority to Ensure Child Nutrition Programs Can Continue to Operate

USDA's authority to provide a nationwide waiver, even if it increases program costs, is set to expire on September 30, 2021. We, the undersigned organizations, ask Congress to extend USDA’s nationwide waiver authority to September 30, 2022 to ensure they have the flexibility needed to respond to the pandemic and ensure that the federal child nutrition programs continue to operate and provide healthy snacks and meals to the students who need them.

Child Poverty

CDF and Nearly 800 Organizations Urge Congress to Include Essential Anti-Hunger and Anti-Poverty Provisions in the Build Back Better Reconciliation Bill

We urge Congress to protect the size and scope of the package and the critical investments that will reduce food insecurity, poverty, and racial disparities and improve nutrition in this country.

Child Poverty

Work Requirements Would Undermine the CTC's Impacts on Racial and Economic Justice

We know that more than half of Black and Latino children were previously excluded from the CTC because their families did not make enough money to qualify, and re-imposing this racist policy could exclude millions of children of color and reverse the gains our nation has made thus far. As Congress works through  the Build Back Better reconciliation package, the CTC should be  strengthened to reach every  child,  not weakened by cuts or undermined with work requirements.

October 6, 2021 | National