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Fact Sheet: Impact of the President’s 2020 Budget on Children
| March 22, 2019 |
President Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 20) seeks massive cuts to critical programs that help children and families. The …
Fact Sheet: How the Proposed Snap Time-Limit Rule Will Harm Children
Rachel Merker | February 1, 2019 |
View our fact sheet. The Situation As the nation’s largest federal food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the first line …
Fact Sheet: Administrative Threats to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Rachel Merker | October 24, 2018 |
Food insecurity remains a major threat to health and wellbeing of 12.5 million children in America. This means that in 2017, one in six children …
Fact Sheet: The Public Charge Rule Harms Children
Cara Baldari, Carrie Fitzgerald, Jonny Yao, Kristen Torres, Rachel Merker | October 10, 2018 |
The strength of our country’s economic future is dependent on the wellbeing of our nation’s children, who make up our future tax base. Children …
Fact Sheet: A Snapshot of Children Living in Poverty: 2017
Cara Baldari, Rachel Merker | September 24, 2018 |
Our nation’s economic security depends on the well-being of our children, who are our future workforce and tax base. Yet data recently released from …
Fact Sheet: Medicaid is Cost-Effective Coverage that Works for Kids
Carrie Fitzgerald | April 6, 2018 |
Medicaid is the largest insurer of children. Medicaid insures approximately 37 million children. An additional 8.9 million children are enrolled in the Children’s Health …
Fact Sheet: The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018
First Focus | March 30, 2018 |
On March 23rd, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, an omnibus spending bill that funds the government for …
Fact Sheet: Income Support in The President’s 2019 Budget
Cara Baldari | March 27, 2018 |
On February 12th, 2018, President Trump presented his budget request for fiscal year 2019 (FY19) to Congress, outlining his spending priorities for the coming …
Fact Sheet: Impact of the President’s 2019 Budget Proposal on Child Nutrition Assistance
First Focus, Rachel Merker | February 20, 2018 |
The President’s Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 19) budget includes several harmful proposals that would drastically cut and restructure domestic food assistance programs that serve …
Fact Sheet: Impact of the President’s FY 2019 Budget Request on Children’s Health
Carrie Fitzgerald, First Focus | February 16, 2018 |
Earlier this week President Trump released his 2019 budget proposal to Congress. His FY 2019 budget request totals $4.4 trillion for the next fiscal …