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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.

  • Comments on the Proposed Extension of Indiana's Section 1115 Demonstration Project

    CDF joined other children's health organizations to express concerns regarding Indiana's proposal for a ten year extension of its section 1115 demonstration project. The evidence is clear that premiums and copayments decrease participation in health coverage and impede access to care and that unnecessary work requirements will lead to thousands losing coverage.

  • Child Poverty

    150+ Organizations Call for the Passage of the PAID Leave Act amid COVID-19

    The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the health and economic consequences faced by working people when they lack access to paid sick days and paid family and medical leave. Our society is only as healthy as its most vulnerable members. Now more than ever, we must recognize that we all have a stake in ensuring that working people have access to paid sick and safe days and paid family and medical leave.

  • 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.

  • Child Poverty

    600+ Organizations Call for Immigrant Families to be Included in COVID-19 Relief Package

    CDF was one of over 600 organizations calling for the House to address two major provisions of the proposed COVID-19 relief bill that would exclude millions of immigrant families, including U.S. citizen children. We cannot protect the nation from the Coronavirus and its economic impact if we deny health care and financial relief to a large segment of our communities.

  • Education

    Free Virtual Education Tools for Children and Their Caregivers

    Millions of children are out of school right now, as communities take action to slow the coronavirus epidemic, and there is a real possibility that some of these students may not be returning to business-as-usual anytime soon.

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