First Focus on Children provides on-the-record context, analysis and, of course, quotes about the issues pressing hardest on our nation’s children. We also offer Reporter Roundtables, newsletters and media briefs.
Youth Today, By Jamaal Abdul-Alim … Total federal spending on children’s programs increased 10.5 percent this year over last...
Connecticut Post, By Ken Dixon … HARTFORD — The recession is forcing Connecticut families into poverty at a rate...
MomsRising Blog, By Donna Norton … Full disclosure: I’m not a great baker. My kids think a Betty Crocker...
Christian Science Monitor, By Gail Russell Chaddock … Congress has left the building. Four out of five committees of...
The New York Times, By Robert Pear … WASHINGTON — The major health care bills moving through Congress would...
The Arizona Republic, By Megan Gordon … The number of homeless schoolchildren in Arizona has surpassed 25,000 – equivalent...
AlterNet, By Michelle Chen … Last fall, Yolanda James and her three children were lost in their own city....
ColorLines, By Michelle Chen … Last fall, Yolanda James and her three children were lost in their own city....
TIME, By Kathleen Kingsbury … Right now, nearly 1 in 10 children attending public school in Minneapolis is homeless....
