
Undoing the Racist Legacy of Cash Assistance in the South: Reimagining TANF Using the “Black Women Best” Framework
This paper is part of First Focus on Children’s upcoming series Big Ideas 2022: The American South Forward This...
This paper is part of First Focus on Children’s upcoming series Big Ideas 2022: The American South Forward This...
Like many of you, we have been watching in dismay as children’s health is politicized by adults. Just as...
First Focus on Children sent the following letter to President Joseph Biden, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier...
I firmly believe that this is our moment. I don’t need to explain to any of you how bad things...
In response to laws passed by several U.S. states, Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus on Children, issued the...
Our nation’s children face multiple challenges to their well-being stemming from years of a declining share of federal investments...
Dear President Biden and Vice President Harris: Congratulations on rising to our nation’s highest offices. We’ve been talking to...
Between March and July of this year, 4,200 children in New York State lost a parent or caregiver to...
The COVID-19 pandemic is doing more than exposing the racial, ethnic, and economic disparities existing in our society; it...