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How a Tax Credit for Families with Children Could Do More to Fight Poverty

The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a powerful tool to stretch the family budget and lift children out of poverty.. From its initiation in 1997 to its recent expansion and inclusion of high-earners in 2017, the CTC has enjoyed bipartisan support. But as conversation about the credit gets louder, it is exciting to see bipartisan enthusiasm for tweaking the CTC to deliver greater benefits for the poorest families.

December 19, 2019 | National

Census

CDF-Ohio Senate Finance Committee on 2020 Census on June 13, 2019

Child Poverty

Declining Investments in Children Threaten to Destroy Our National and Economic Security

“Might it be that this land with all of its richness, with all of its opportunity for true greatness, its opportunity to present itself before the world as what a nation ought to be, might now be sowing the seeds of its very destruction in abandonment of its children?”

November 14, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Acting to End Child Poverty

November 1, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Civil Rights Community Demands Department of Education Put Students First

Arrive at the intersection of educational inequality, poverty and racial inequity and you’ll find a legion of substandard for-profit higher education programs that have long been under scrutiny for their predatory practices, high cost and low value.

November 1, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Child Homelessness and the Affordable Housing Crisis

Hundreds of thousands of American children are homeless—living in housing shared with other families, homeless shelters, motels, cars, or on the street—while the tools that would help them gather dust on the shelf.

October 22, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Comments on HUD's Disparate Impact Standard Proposed Rule

CDF submitted comments on the proposed rule on HUD's implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Disparate Impact Standard. We urged HUD to immediately withdraw the proposed rule and instead advance housing policies that strengthen - not undermine - the disparate impact theory that allows for stable, safe and affordable housing for all.

Child Poverty

Child Poverty

How a Tax Credit for Families with Children Could Do More to Fight Poverty

CDF-Ohio Senate Finance Committee on 2020 Census on June 13, 2019

Declining Investments in Children Threaten to Destroy Our National and Economic Security

Acting to End Child Poverty

Civil Rights Community Demands Department of Education Put Students First

Child Homelessness and the Affordable Housing Crisis

Comments on HUD's Disparate Impact Standard Proposed Rule

God Help Us to End Poverty in Our Time

Little Progress Made on Ohio Child Poverty

Child Poverty in America 2018 State Fact Sheet

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