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Service Announcements
CDF Deepens Commitment to Advancing Child Well-Being, Announces Two Key Appointments to Executive Staff
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a longtime national leader in youth advocacy, today announced two key appointments to its executive leadership team.
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Conference
Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry
Come sing and pray, strategize and struggle, organize, and advocate with us at the next Hall-Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
July 13-16, 2026
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Child Poverty
Expanded Child Tax Credit as an Anti-Poverty & Child Welfare Prevention Strategy
The expanded CTC is a critical policy choice to address the persistent problem of child poverty in the United States.
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A Child Watch Coda
After 40 years, today’s column will be the last in the weekly Child Watch® series. Today is not yet the conclusion to the reasons this column began, nor to the need to stay vigilant.
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“The America That Is Yet to Come”
This month marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the historic legislation President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law at the U.S. Capitol with many of the Democratic and Republican lawmakers who had helped secure its large bipartisan victory and civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and Mrs. Rosa Parks, by his side.
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