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Social security benefits application for kids should be online, advocates say
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (24+ words) Online access will help children who have lost a parent First Focus on Children and other leading advocacy organizations are urging the Social Security...
The Kid Angle: How to Improve the Tax Code "and Other Systems " for Kids
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (250+ words) As the House returned this week, First Focus on Children offered lawmakers innovative suggestions for using the tax code to improve the lives of children. "We believe Congress should pursue tax policies that meaningfully reduce child poverty, improve family economic…...
Medicaid Threats Endanger Children's Health Care
1+ week, 52+ min ago (473+ words) First Focus on Children Medicaid Threats Endanger Children's Health Care - State Letters Threaten to End All Federal Medicaid Funding The Trump Administration's decision to freeze more than a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to California " and to impose similar punishment…...
Choosing Children: A Roadmap for the 119th Congress
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (706+ words) America's children are being pushed in the wrong direction and down the wrong path. Every day, the distance between where they are and where they need to be for their health, development, education, safety, and well-being grows wider. That is…...
Man Made Crises Facing the World's Children
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (651+ words) From Iran to Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan, children today are growing up amid the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II. This reality is reshaping childhood in ways that are profound, cumulative, and often invisible to those not…...
A Children's Agenda for the 119th Congress - Campaign For Children
2+ week, 1+ day ago (132+ words) America's children are being pushed in the wrong direction and down the wrong path. Every day, the distance between where they are and where they need to be for their health, development, education, safety, and well-being grows wider. These ideas…...
The Kid Angle: 24 Hours that Sidelined the Nation's Children
2+ week, 6+ day ago (604+ words) First Focus on Children The Kid Angle: 24 Hours that Sidelined the Nation's Children In the last 24 hours, Congress has made clear " not once, but twice " that children are not their priority. First, the House last night passed a budget resolution…...
Will Congress attack hungry children again, this time to pay for one hour of war in Iran?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (925+ words) First Focus on Children Will Congress attack hungry children again, this time to pay for one hour of war in Iran? - Cuts would pay for just one hour of Iran war Republicans in the House and Senate are seriously considering…...
Comment: Proposed Rule Will Reverse Progress on Child Care Affordability
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (134+ words) First Focus on Children submitted a comment on proposed rulemaking regarding child care affordability to the Federal Register today outlining the threat Comment: Proposed Rule Will Reverse Progress on Child Care Affordability First Focus on Children submitted a comment on…...
The Real Scandal is Failing to Protect and Support the Nation's Children
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1372+ words) First Focus on Children The Real Scandal is Failing to Protect and Support the Nation's Children The state of our nation's children is dire: homelessness is rising rapidly among infants and toddlers, child poverty has nearly tripled in recent years,…...