Apr 04, 2023
Child Nutrition
Policy Brief: The Harmful Consequences of Work Requirements and Other Obstacles to Services for Children and Families
Each year, federal programs provide children with affordable health care, nutritious food, stable housing, and early childhood education. These...
Dec 08, 2022
Big Ideas 2023
Big Ideas 2023 delivers innovative solutions to issues such as child homelessness, education reform, economic justice, and children’s health...
Oct 06, 2022
Federal Budget & Tax
Children’s Budget 2022
Children’s Budget 2022, released today, finds that the share of federal spending on children climbed to a historic 11.98%...
Aug 31, 2022
Child Poverty
Undoing the Racist Legacy of Cash Assistance in the South: Reimagining TANF Using the “Black Women Best” Framework
This paper is part of First Focus on Children’s upcoming series Big Ideas 2022: The American South Forward This...
Jun 21, 2022
Children of Immigrants
Report: Unaccompanied Children in Emergency Intake Site (EIS) Facilities
In May 2022, the Women’s Refugee Commission and First Focus on Children led a delegation of 11 advocacy organizations...
Jun 02, 2022
The 2021 First Focus Campaign for Children Legislative Scorecard
In 2021, the first year of the 117th Congress, the federal government made its most significant investment in children...
May 12, 2022
REPORT: Kids & COVID Conversations
Overview: From the beginning, children have been sidelined in the discussion of COVID-19. The rumor that children do not...
Jun 22, 2021
A Children’s Agenda For the 117th Congress
The children are not alright. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession, we were failing our kids on...
Apr 26, 2021
Case Study: Utilizing Tax Credits to Alleviate Child Poverty in the United States
by: Kathryn Blankenship, Jordyn Florance, Stephanie Lobo, Brittany WalshAmerican University: Education Policy & Leadership Executive Summary This report was...
