Statement: Senate package good first step for kids but children need more robust measures
Tim Smith | March 26, 2020
We commend Senate lawmakers’ unanimous passage of the $2 trillion coronavirus emergency bill, and even more, for using it to offer relief to America’s …
Statement for the Record: Ways & Means Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support Hearing on Combatting Child Poverty
Tim Smith | March 25, 2020
Excerpt: As members of the U.S. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), a coalition of national organizations dedicated to addressing child poverty in the United …
Letter: Prioritize the well-being of children as you respond to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Tim Smith | March 20, 2020
First Focus Campaign for Children sent the following letter to Congressional leaders in both houses, urging them to prioritize the well-being of children in …
Statement: Congress’s coronavirus response is a good first step, but bigger, bolder measures are needed
Tim Smith | March 18, 2020
We applaud Congress for passing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, providing families and children with increased food and nutrition assistance, supplemental state funding …
First Focus Campaign for Children identifies 120 lawmakers who prioritize children
Tim Smith | March 12, 2020
In 2019, nearly one-in-six of our nation’s children lived in poverty. The number of kids without health insurance rose to more than 4 million, …
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would become permanent under bipartisan bill
Tim Smith | March 11, 2020
A bipartisan team of lawmakers have introduced a bill to make the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) permanent, a move overwhelmingly supported by pediatricians, …