Politics & Policy

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Healthcare Politics & Policy

February 20, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs just released a special edition of the Human Needs Report focusing on President Trump’s FY19 budget request, including sections on select departmental budgets.

Lecia Imbery

Gun Safety Politics & Policy

February 15, 2018

If I don’t make it I love you and I appreciate everything you did for me --Text message sent from a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida to her mother December 2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the indescribably horrible mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary...

Marian Wright Edelman

Food! Politics & Policy

February 13, 2018

Actually happening: some in Congress are trying to dismantle the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities at work, in school, in public places, and more. It's true. HR 620 - the ADA Education and Reform Act - is moving through the U.S. House...

Karen Showalter

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Politics & Policy

February 9, 2018

The Coalition on Human Needs just released another edition of the Human Needs Report, with the latest on Congress’s spending and budget work, President Trump’s FY19 budget, immigration, work requirements, and more.

Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Politics & Policy

February 9, 2018

God has sent some huge rainbows in the clouds for vulnerable children amidst a profoundly negative political climate. Good news these days has been few and far between but the Bipartisan Budget Package/Continuing Resolution (CR) signed by the President earlier today offers significant and long...

Marian Wright Edelman

Healthcare Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

February 7, 2018

By: Alexandria Hill, MD Increasingly, women with cardiac disease are getting pregnant. We typically associate cardiac disease with people who have had a heart attack or open-heart surgery. But, as a physician and a cardiac patient myself, I think about the people born with heart abnormalities or...

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Families & The Federal Budget Politics & Policy

February 2, 2018

As I listened to President Trump’s State of the Union Address waiting to hear even a kernel of hope for our country’s most vulnerable children I became more and more distressed and disgusted as these children’s needs were once again left behind along with the values of the America and all great...

Marian Wright Edelman

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Healthcare Immigration Maternal Justice Military Families MomsVote Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

January 30, 2018

"We were divided and conquered because the intersectional history that held our movements together had been ignored and forgotten."

Anita Sarah Jackson

Childcare & Early Education Healthcare Immigration Politics & Policy

January 26, 2018

“You promised.” Children learn the value and power of those words very early on as they begin to develop a sense of morality and trust. A preschooler will show deep outrage when an adult promise isn’t kept. The Continuing Resolution that ended this week’s government shutdown relied on a series of...

Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Healthcare Politics & Policy

January 12, 2018

It is a national disgrace that children are the poorest Americans. The Children’s Defense Fund’s new report The State of America’s Children® 2017 details the immoral, costly and preventable poverty, homelessness, hunger, health problems, poor education and violence plaguing children who are America...

Marian Wright Edelman