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CDF and Partner Organizations Urge Critical Child Tax Credit Changes in the Next COVID Package

A society should be measured by how it treats its children. America will be judged by how we help our children and families who are struggling amidst our parallel crises of COVID-19 and systemic racism. Expanding and improving the child tax credit is a critical step toward living up to our country’s promise to our children.

February 1, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

President Biden Takes Key Steps to Address Hunger in New Executive Order

Recognizing that hunger is a moral and political failure with devastating consequences for our children and nation, President Biden exercised his authority last Thursday to issue an executive order to strengthen federal nutrition assistance. This executive order includes a number of provisions to address shortcomings in existing COVID relief efforts and provide immediate relief for millions of families struggling to put food on the table.

January 29, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

Leveraging Racial Impact Statements To Achieve Racial Equity In All Policies: National Context

Child Health

Response to the Governor’s Proposed FY 2022 Executive Budget

Child Health

Ongoing Violence Can Take a Toll on Children's Health and Wellbeing

As we move towards accountability and welcome in the new administration, it’s time for bold solutions to dismantle systems of oppression and protect our children from sources of toxic stress like poverty, racism, and police violence.

January 19, 2021 | National

Child Health

President-Elect Biden’s COVID Relief Proposal Would Help Families in Crisis and Begin to Address Child Poverty

Last week, President-Elect Biden released a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package to address the growing public health and economic crisis brought on by the pandemic, which continues to exacerbate the systems of economic and racial injustice that harm our children. Since the start of the pandemic, CDF has called on lawmakers to prioritize children in their response to the crisis and the President-Elect’s relief package would provide immediate relief while also taking a long overdue step to address our nation’s shameful child poverty crisis that could lead to the largest reduction in child poverty rates in decades.

January 18, 2021 | National

Child Poverty

Statement on President-Elect Biden's First COVID-19 Relief Package Proposal

January 15, 2021 | National

Child Health

CDF-NY 2021-2022 Legislative and Budget Priorities

Child Health

Statement: The End of Innocence about America

January 7, 2021 | National

Child Health

2020: CDF’s Year in Review

The Children’s Defense Fund spent much of 2020 pushing Congress to take action to protect children and families from the harmful impacts of our country’s health, economic, and racial disparities while continuing to defend against harmful regulatory and administrative policies set forth by the Trump administration. Our commitment to children and policies that protect them has never wavered, and we know we have many fights ahead to keep children and families safe in the new year. But as we reach the end of an unprecedented year, we are taking a moment to celebrate some important wins for children and families in 2020.

December 29, 2020 | National