160 groups to Congress: Support the Administration’s child welfare budget
This letter signed by 160 leading children’s advocacy organizations urges Congress to support President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 proposed...
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This letter signed by 160 leading children’s advocacy organizations urges Congress to support President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 proposed...
According to the Department of Education, there were over 1.2 million homeless children and youth enrolled in public school...
First Focus Campaign for Children sent this letter to the original co-sponsors of the Summer Meals Act of 2015...
One in five children in the United States are living in poverty, and children continue to experience higher rates...
Recently, and mostly along party lines, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed a conference agreement on...
As e-cigarettes have become more popular, poison control centers reported last year a 200 percent jump in calls related to...
This letter, signed by over 188 organizations representing the faith-based, civil rights, human rights, survivors’ rights, and children’s community...
In this essay, Dr. James S. Marks, director of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, discusses...
The First Focus Campaign for Children submitted this statement for the Senate Appropriations Transportation, Housing & Urban Development Subcommittee...