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CDF Calls for USDA Waivers to Ensure Children Have Access to Meals during COVID-19

CDF joined over 50 organizations to encourage the USDA to issue additional nationwide waivers so that communities are able to better respond to the current crisis and children are able to access the meals they need.

Child Health

Health and Economic Justice Responses to New York's COVID-19 Crisis

Child Poverty

150+ Organizations Call for the Passage of the PAID Leave Act amid COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the health and economic consequences faced by working people when they lack access to paid sick days and paid family and medical leave. Our society is only as healthy as its most vulnerable members. Now more than ever, we must recognize that we all have a stake in ensuring that working people have access to paid sick and safe days and paid family and medical leave.

Child Poverty

600+ Organizations Call for Immigrant Families to be Included in COVID-19 Relief Package

CDF was one of over 600 organizations calling for the House to address two major provisions of the proposed COVID-19 relief bill that would exclude millions of immigrant families, including U.S. citizen children. We cannot protect the nation from the Coronavirus and its economic impact if we deny health care and financial relief to a large segment of our communities.

Child Health

Protecting children and families during this crisis: CDF’s response to COVID-19

As we face a widespread, national health crisis, we hope you are taking steps to keep yourself, your loved ones, and your community safe.

March 13, 2020 | National

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