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Child Poverty

Civil Rights Community Demands Department of Education Put Students First

Arrive at the intersection of educational inequality, poverty and racial inequity and you’ll find a legion of substandard for-profit higher education programs that have long been under scrutiny for their predatory practices, high cost and low value.

November 1, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Acting to End Child Poverty

November 1, 2019 | National

Elijah Cummings: Champion of Children’s God-given Potential

October 25, 2019 | National

Child Welfare

AFCARS #26 Released

This Thursday, the Children’s Bureau released the 26th annual report from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).

October 25, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Child Homelessness and the Affordable Housing Crisis

Hundreds of thousands of American children are homeless—living in housing shared with other families, homeless shelters, motels, cars, or on the street—while the tools that would help them gather dust on the shelf.

October 22, 2019 | National

Immigration

Going Forward: Who Speaks and Who Listens in the Immigration Conversation?

“When immigrants are under attack, what do we do? Stand up. Fight back!”

October 22, 2019 | National

Celebrating the Servant Leadership of Steven Minter

October 18, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

Comments on HUD's Disparate Impact Standard Proposed Rule

CDF submitted comments on the proposed rule on HUD's implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Disparate Impact Standard. We urged HUD to immediately withdraw the proposed rule and instead advance housing policies that strengthen - not undermine - the disparate impact theory that allows for stable, safe and affordable housing for all.

Education

We Should Be Investing in Education, not Incarceration

Earlier this school year, 6-year-old Kaia was handcuffed, arrested, and taken to a juvenile detention center where she was charged with battery for having a tantrum in her first grade class. How Kaia was treated is appalling, and yet the criminalization of our children is all too common: A child is arrested every 39 seconds in America and about 76,000 children are placed in the adult criminal justice system annually.

October 15, 2019 | National

Child Poverty

God Help Us to End Poverty in Our Time

October 11, 2019 | National