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CDF Toolkit Children Are Counting On You

This summer, CDF Freedom Schools scholars made their voices heard on why voting matters and what issues they want grown-ups to champion at the polls. Now it’s our turn to use our power, amplify the voices of the voteless, and commit to taking children’s needs to the polls.

CDF Toolkit Use Your Power To Vote For Children

Regardless of how you choose to vote, it is essential you educate yourself on ways to vote, make your plan, and stick to it. Below, you will find resources and information you might need to vote in the upcoming election.

Nick Kotz: Great Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist with a Passion for Justice and a Much Beloved Friend

September 18, 2020 | National

Immigration

TPS Protects Families. A New Ruling This Week Puts the Program at Risk.

This week, in a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration has the discretion to end TPS protection for 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. This means thousands of immigrants could be forced out of their homes of decades, separated from their families, and deported to countries where they would be unsafe. This family separation - and even the threat of separation - will have devastating effects on the health, well-being, and economic security of TPS holders and their children.

September 18, 2020 | National

Education

CDF Applauds the House for Passing the Strength in Diversity Act to Address School Segregation

More than 66 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools are more segregated today than they were in the 1960s. Yesterday, the House of Representatives took a promising step to address this by passing the Strength in Diversity Act (HR 2639) with bipartisan support.

September 16, 2020 | National

Child Poverty

New Census Data Doesn't Tell Full Story of the Child Poverty Crisis in America

After nearly 50 years leading CDF, Marian Wright Edelman welcomes nationally recognized children’s rights and racial equity champion Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson to carry forward her legacy and lead CDF into a new Civil Rights Movement.

September 15, 2020 | National

Child Health

New Census Data Shows Children Continued Losing Health Insurance Before the Pandemic Hit

After decades of hard-fought progress bringing the rate of uninsured children to an historic low, today the Census Bureau reported that an estimated 5.7 percent of children under age 19 were uninsured in 2019—an increase of 320,000 more children without health insurance since 2018. This data also confirms what we feared: millions of children and families lacked health insurance even before the COVID-19 crisis hit. And we know loss of health insurance has only worsened in recent months, as high unemployment rates mean many families are losing access to job-based health insurance.

September 15, 2020 | National

Child Poverty

2019 Census Child Poverty Data and What COVID-19 Means for Kids

On Tuesday, September 22, the Children’s Defense Fund, First Focus on Children, and the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group are hosting a webinar from 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm EST entitled 2019 Census Child Poverty Data and What COVID-19 Means for Kids.

September 14, 2020 | National

Child Poverty

Poverty Messaging Guidance: Five Points to Hit on U.S. Census Poverty Data

Beloved Friend and Great Civil Rights Servant Leader John Lewis

September 11, 2020 | National