
Children’s Budget 2024
The Children’s Budget provides a comprehensive analysis of the share of spending allocated to kids over more than 250...
Analyses, briefs, fact sheets and other materials to help policymakers and the public understand the issues that impact our nation’s children.
Fact sheets and issue briefs offer policymakers, advocates, and the public a concise resource on various issues affecting children and families.
First Focus on Children communicates with all branches of government, offering support, advice, & criticism when needed, to ensure children are a priority in policy decisions.
First Focus on Children’s signature publications offer a holistic view of children’s policy, highlighting the interconnected challenges facing children & how federal policy can improve their lives.
First Focus on Children’s annual Children’s Budget analyzes federal spending on kids across 250+ programs, helping policymakers, advocates, & public understand how to improve kids’ lives.
Training resources and recorded webinars from First Focus team & outside experts on a variety of topics are available here.
The Children’s Budget provides a comprehensive analysis of the share of spending allocated to kids over more than 250...
As the COVID-19 emergency has receded, so has our nation’s commitment to children. Children’s Budget 2023 finds that U.S....
Children’s Budget 2022, released today, finds that the share of federal spending on children climbed to a historic 11.98%...
The 2021 Children’s Budget book, released on November 3rd, 2021, finds that COVID funding fueled the largest year-to-year increase...
About Children’s Budget 2020: First Focus on Children is proud to introduce the 14th annual release of its signature...
First Focus on Children is proud to introduce the 13th annual release of its signature Children’s Budget publication, a...
First Focus is proud to announce the release of Children’s Budget 2018, which captures and analyzes historical funding data and...
Children are receiving less than 8 percent of the federal budget—and this share fell 5.5 percent between 2014 and...
Federal spending dedicated to children represents just 7.83 percent of the federal budget in fiscal year 2016 and total...