Child Health
Medicaid Turns 60: Celebrate Coverage, Not Cuts
For six decades, Medicaid has served as a lifeline, protecting children’s health and strengthening communities. Now, as Medicaid marks this milestone, that promise has been broken.
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Education
“Strong Schools Brighter Futures!”
More than 12,000 scholars in CDF Freedom Schools programs participate in National Day of Social Action, a collective organizing effort centered around CDF’s mission to build community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.
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Medicaid Turns 60: Celebrate Coverage, Not Cuts
Your policymakers voted to use Medicaid funding cuts to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. Now is the time to call and tell them: protect children’s health care, protect Medicaid, and CHIP!
July 22, 2025
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Service Announcements
Faith Leaders, Youth Advocates Gather for 2025 Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry
Hundreds of faith leaders and youth advocates from across the country have gathered in Clinton, Tennessee, to participate in the 2025 Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
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A Time for Good Trouble
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Being Loving Champions for Justice
For people whose hearts are broken by seeing news of parents, families, and children suffering anywhere, this has been a difficult week.
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Fourth of July Lessons from Frederick Douglass
On a Fourth of July when many Americans are expressing profound concerns about whether the government’s orders, decisions, and votes are representing their voices and asking questions about what we the people means today, it is an opportune time to return to the keynote speech Frederick Douglass gave in Rochester, New York, at an Independence Day celebration on July 5, 1852.
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Child Health
Children’s Defense Fund 'Deeply Disturbed and Disappointed' by H.R. 1 Passage
On Thursday, the United States House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation package that includes more than $1 trillion in funding tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
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Child Welfare
CDF Listening Tour to Stop in Allentown as President and CEO Starsky Wilson Listens to Families About Their Pressing Needs
On Tuesday, Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of the national youth advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), will visit Allentown to hear directly from children and families in the Lehigh Valley about the challenges they face, and the solutions they envision, amid continued uncertainty around the economy and essential education and health programs.
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Immigration
Children’s Defense Fund: “Denying the Constitutional Right to Citizenship Would Harm Children”
The implications of ending, or even threatening, birthright citizenship are far-reaching and serious. Denying the constitutional right to citizenship would harm children, families, and communities throughout the United States, weakening the moral and social fabric of our nation.
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