Child Poverty
Alarming Surge in Child Poverty Rates in 2022: Urgent Calls for Action
Last week, the Census Bureau released the U.S. poverty data for 2022.
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Child Welfare
For Our Children: Back to School
While many of us caregivers are scrambling to make sure our students have the right supplies (I forgot crayons!), clothes, and enough lunch money, we can’t lose focus on the disturbing social challenges that no pencil, pen, or notebook can prepare our students for.
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Education
For Our Children: National Day of Social Action
I have often said that CDF Freedom Schools® is the heart and soul of our work at Children’s Defense Fund. The program teaches more than 16,000 young scholars across the country how to tap into their own power and that of their communities in order to make meaningful change.
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Education
For Our Children: Threats to Education are Threats to Democracy
When we don’t tell the true history of Black and Brown people in America, we’re not telling America’s true history.
