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