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First Focus on Children is a bipartisan advocacy group advocating to make children and families a greater priority in federal budget and policymaking decisions.
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A Wake-up Call for the Country (opens the original)
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A guest commentary by Joan Lombardi, PhDI walked into my first Head Start classroom in 1972. It was from that program, those families, and that community that I learned about the endless potential of young children. Less than a decade earlier, Sargent Shriver had called upon a pediatrician, Dr. Robert Cooke, to chair a panel of experts which led to the design of Head Start. This multidisciplinary group recognized the comprehensive needs of young children and realized that empowering parents is e
A Proposed 400-Page OMB Rule Could Make It Easier to Defund Children's Programs Overnight (opens the original)
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There’s a nurse somewhere in this country right now, driving to a new mother’s apartment for a home visit. There’s a caseworker on the phone with a kid in foster care, checking in the way she does every week. There’s a lawyer preparing for a hearing on behalf of a child who crossed the border alone.All three of those relationships exist because of a federal grant. Congress decided those children deserved help. Federal grants are how those commitments become real in supporting kids who are someti
The Big Ugly Impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill: How H.R. 1 is Hurting Children’s Health One Year In (opens the original)
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One year ago this month, President Trump signed into law the biggest cuts to Medicaid in U.S. history in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21). At the time, First Focus on Children predicted that the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in H.R. 1 would harm kids, even as Congress insisted the cuts targeted only the childless adult population.Unfortunately, Congress miscalculated. New data shows that only one year later, H.
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