Children's Defense in Washington, DC, US (United States)

Fortunately, there are other options. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free electronic tax filing and direct deposit of refunds so that taxpayers can get their refunds in about 10 days without paying exorbitant fees. 

There is growing momentum for our new President and Congress to take up health care reform next year, and we want to make sure that any reform legislation includes health coverage for all children. 

This manual serves as a guide for you and your faith community to engage in child and family advocacy work through a National Observance of Children's Sabbaths Celebration and year-round. 

Although she had no prior criminal record, 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton was sentenced in 2006 to up to seven years in correctional detention for shoving a teacher's aide in the small town of Paris in East Texas. 

We must face the hard truth that firearms are so easy to acquire in the United States that lethal mass shootings are mathematically inevitable. Our nation was stunned by Cho Seung Hui's shooting spree at Virginia Tech University where he killed 32 students and professors and wounded 15.