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  • Gun Violence

    Doing Something

    There is an overwhelming chorus urging elected leaders to "do something" to stem our national gun violence epidemic.

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  • A Ripe Time

    This special holy season this year, as many people are observing Ramadan, Passover, and Easter during the same week, is also fifty-five years to the week after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. It is as useful as ever right now to return to his last Sunday sermon, delivered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968.

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  • Gun Violence

    Beyond Thoughts and Prayers

    It happened again. This time, the mass school shooting was at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  • Praise for Wonderful Dr. Fauci

    As a physician and immunologist who has been an advisor to every president since Ronald Reagan and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush, Dr. Fauci has spent his entire professional life serving and helping others.

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  • Child Poverty

    CDF Responds to the President’s Budget

    While we are encouraged by President Biden’s proposed expansion of the Child Tax Credit, increased investment into early care and education, and other programs that improve outcomes for children and youth—we call on the President and Congress to further commit to expanding and strengthening supports for this nation’s most marginalized. 

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