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Child Health

How America Ranks in Protecting Children

If America’s standing in the world is measured by how we treat our children, we are failing miserably.

March 13, 2020 | National

Child Poverty

CDF Joins the Call for Paid Sick Leave Legislation amid COVID-19

CDF joined over 140 organizations in urging members of Congress to co-sponsor the Paid Sick Days for Public Health Emergencies and Personal and Family Care Act (S. 3415/H.R. 6150) and advocate for its swift passage. Our society is only as healthy as its most vulnerable members. We all have a stake in ensuring paid sick days for public health emergencies and for personal and family care.

Child Poverty

Children's Education Organizations Urge Congress to Protect Child Care and Early Learning Systems amid COVID-19

Early childhood education programs are essential for the millions of children and families they serve, and are particularly crucial during emergency public health and economic crises. But their success is contingent upon receiving the robust investment they need to take necessary steps and precautions. We urge lawmakers to act swiftly to allocate substantial emergency flexible funding directly to the child care and early learning systems in this country.

Child Poverty

New Report Finds Deep Child Poverty Rose between 1995 and 2005 Due to Weakened Safety Net Programs

The dismantling of welfare in 1996 ushered in a decade-long increase in the number of children living in families with income below half the poverty line, according to a new analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, but that increase has been reversed by the rise of SNAP as the country’s most effective deep-poverty-fighting tool.

February 28, 2020 | National

Child Health

Yet Another Proposal from the Trump Administration that Would Take Food from Hungry Children

In the President’s Budget, the Trump Administration made its priorities clear: additional tax cuts for wealthy corporations and individuals over food assistance for hungry children and families.

February 20, 2020 | National

Child Health

Cultivating Opportunities for Youth to Flourish in Franklin County

Child Health

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

February 12, 2020 | National

Child Poverty

New Data Shows Increase in Students Experiencing Homelessness

During his State of the Union address this week, the President told a misleading story about the economy steadily chipping away at poverty across the country.

February 10, 2020 | National

Child Health

Congress Discusses Ongoing Regulatory Threats to America’s Children

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform will conduct a series of hearings focused on how various proposed regulations by the Trump Administration will negatively impact children. We are hopeful these hearings will help shine a light on that fact as they sound the alarm bell on the Trump Administration’s repeated attempts to underestimate our child poverty rate and deprive children of health care, housing, nutritious food, and clean air and water.

February 5, 2020 | National

Child Health

Thinking of Our Children During the State of the Union Address

Tonight President Trump will address the nation as he delivers his State of the Union remarks. Reports suggest he will present a “relentless optimism,” but our newly-released annual report—State of American’s Children 2020—offers a dramatically different picture: the current state of our children is unacceptable and must be urgently addressed.

February 4, 2020 | National