Federal Budget & Tax

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This ugliest of bills disproportionately affects children, according to First Focus Campaign for Children. Three of the major programs serving children—Medicaid, the Child...

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“The structure favors families who already have the means to save. It’s regressive by design,” said Michelle Dallafior, senior...

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First Focus on Children’s crack economist Chris Becker is still crunching the numbers in the so-called budget released last...

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Bruce Lesley, president of the advocacy organisation First Focus on Children, says that we may never have seen an...

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In the never-ending assault on children’s health, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week...

The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill that supporters are referring to as a “one big, beautiful bill.”...

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“The consequences of developmental delays and health problems are lifelong in young kids,” Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus...

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It is worth repeating — over and over and over — that the sweeping budget bill passed last night in...

Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus Campaign for Children, released the following statement regarding last night’s passage by the...