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Tax Day 2026 has thankfully passed, but lawmakers’ failure to improve the Child Tax Credit to meaningfully help babies...
The FY 2027 budget President Trump proposed last week prioritizes military might above all else by cutting the social safety...
Today’s Kid Angle was going to be all about birthright citizenship, but let’s start with the news of today...
Being a child has never been easy in this country. But the weeks ahead may prove especially rough for...
Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, but thousands of children are in — inside DHS jails. “It...
With the House of Representatives scheduled to vote on fiscal year 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security...
President Trump hardly mentioned children in his State of the Union address this week, mostly using his platform to...
It’s no secret that this Congress has largely failed to protect the nation’s children. But a few lawmakers stand...
Once again, Congress is on the precipice of a government shutdown, this time battling over whether to take a...
