First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
First Focus Campaign for Children and the Coalition on Human Needs led 123 other national and local organizations in…
In this episode, Messellech “Selley” Abebe sits down with award-winning filmmaker, author, and educator Suzie Hicks — also known…
In response to a proposed rule from the Department of Education related to federal student loans, First Focus on…
National child advocacy organization files amicus brief in Trump v. Barbara, urging the Court to affirm birthright citizenship as…
The Trump Administration has begun its goal of eliminating the Department of Education (ED), with recent efforts to dissipate…
SOTU offers no vision for improving the lives of kids In response to last night’s State of the Union…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
