Dear Lord be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small

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Future MN Doctor, Future MN Teacher, Future MN Job Creator. Babies representing future workers came to the capitol to urge legislators to Invest in Me. See Legislative Agenda & Photos
Understand how child poverty affects a child’s brain development, how it affects all our futures and how smart investments today can help. Read CDF-MN's: 10 Things to Know About Child Poverty in MN
Congratulations to Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) and Sondra Samuels, CDF-Minnesota Advisory Board Member and NAZ Chief Executive Officer, on winning federal Promise Neighborhood funding for children and families! Read More
Read CDF-MN Press Release. Minnesota is the only state with a significant increase in the rate of uninsured children from 2008 to 2010. Source: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families.

Creating Change: 20th Annual Beat the Odds® Celebration

Join Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota on March 16th in celebrating 20 years of honoring amazing youth at the Beat the Odds® event. These youth have overcome tremendous adversity, demonstrated academic excellence and given back to their communities.

Congratulations to the 2012 Beat the Odds® MN Honorees: Raymond Perez, Anne Sinner, Lashay Thompson, and Eduardo Sanchez Beltran!

See Event Details. Register Online.

CDF-MN News

How Financially Secure are MN Families?
February 1, 2012, Corporation for Enterprise Development

Early Childhood Toxic Stress: The Facts
January 30, 2012, Harvard University Center on the Developing Child

Babies-Future MN workers-Come to the Capitol
January 23, 2012,

2012 Legislative Session Will Include Push for Minimum Wage Hike
January 23, 2012, Public News Service & Litchfield Independent Review

'Food insecurity' high among Twin Cities parents
January 20, 2012, MinnPost.com

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Food Support Blog 3 - My Personal Story

January 12, 2012,
How Food Programs Helped Me Thrive. This is the final in a series of three blogs on Food Support. Food Support is Minnesota’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but is known on the streets as “food stamps.” The first blog featured the history of Food Support and its economic boost to communities and the second analyzed recent and proposed Food Support legislation.

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