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Do Your Members of Congress Protect Children?
 Last week, the CDF Action Council released its 2006 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard, which grades every member of the House and Senate based on key votes affecting children.
Find out who got a perfect score, who "failed," and how your elected officials rate when it comes to protecting children with their votes! |
Healthy Child Campaign
 In early January, CDF announced a legislative plan to provide all children in the United States with health care, including the more than nine million children who are currently uninsured.
Learn more about our proposal and take action! |
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Protect Children, Not Guns
 We continue to lose far too many children in America to gun violence—nearly eight children or teens are killed by gun violence each day—235 each month.
Progress has been made over the years. Firearm deaths of children and teens have dropped from 15 a day in the peak year of 1994 to nearly eight a day in 2004. But eight children and teens dying each day is a moral outrage.
Learn more about the problem and actions we all can take to stop the killing of children and teens in CDF's recently released Protect Children, Not Guns 2007 annual report. |
CDF President on Health Care Coverage for All Children
 Last month, CDF President Marian Wright Edelman spoke to U.S. Mayors about CDF's proposal to provide health care coverage to all children.
Watch the webcast! |
