End Child Poverty
CDF works with individuals, communities and policymakers to enact, fund and implement legislation that helps lift children and their families out of poverty. CDF also works with other organizations to help families identify tax credits and federal and state government benefits for which they’re eligible and to provide them with free tax preparation assistance, enabling them to keep more of their hard-earned money and reduce poverty. In 2006, CDF and its partners helped families save approximately $11.6 million in tax preparation fees alone and helped get almost $170 million back into the pockets of working families.
Read more about this topic: Children's Defense Fund
Famous quotes containing the words child and/or poverty:
“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)