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Gun Violence Prevention
200 Organizations Urge Congress to Invest in Gun Violence Prevention Research
The initial investment for the CDC and NIH was a crucial step toward applying a public health approach to increasing gun safety and reducing firearm-related injuries and deaths, and continued and expanded investments are essential to the success of this important work.
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Child Welfare
The $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Was Necessary But Falls Short for Families and Children in the Child Welfare System
We are urging Congress to act immediately to provide crucial support to families facing the stress and disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic by equipping the child welfare system with the tools it needs to handle the crisis.
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Child Health
Here’s What the $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Means for Children and Families
While this bill represents a very important step forward, it does not meet all of the needs of children and families, particularly the most vulnerable, and falls far short of including all of the priorities for relief CDF outlined in our letter to Congress last week
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Child Poverty
CDF Calls for USDA Waivers to Ensure Children Have Access to Meals during COVID-19
CDF joined over 50 organizations to encourage the USDA to issue additional nationwide waivers so that communities are able to better respond to the current crisis and children are able to access the meals they need.
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Health
CDF Calls for State Fiscal Relief and Increased Federal Medicaid Matching to Address COVID-19
We strongly urge Congress to move legislation forward that includes least at $150 billion in direct aid to states for fiscal relief and to enact an additional, emergency increase of 12 percent to Federal Medicaid matching funds in order to provide essential support to states as they deploy their resources to address critical health needs during COVID-19.
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Child Welfare
CDF Joins the Call for Increased SSBG Funding amid COVID-19
As Congress creates packages to response to COVID-19, we strongly urge increased support for the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) to respond to the most vulnerable—our nation’s older adults, children and families, and people with disabilities. people with disabilities.
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Child Welfare
CDF Letter to Congress on COVID-19 Relief Legislation
As you work quickly with your Congressional colleagues to pass new legislation to address the devastating public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, the Children’s Defense Fund urges you to include in the next package a number of critical provisions to protect our nation’s children and families.