First Focus in the News | First Focus on Children https://firstfocus.org/newsroom/first-focus-in-the-news/ Making Children and Families the Priority Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:46:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-image-4-32x32.png First Focus in the News | First Focus on Children https://firstfocus.org/newsroom/first-focus-in-the-news/ 32 32 The Ugliest of Bills: How Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Endangers All Children https://firstfocus.org/news/the-ugliest-of-bills-how-republicans-reconciliation-bill-endangers-all-children/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:40:23 +0000 https://firstfocus.org/?post_type=news&p=34706 This ugliest of bills disproportionately affects children, according to First Focus Campaign for Children. Three of the major programs serving children—Medicaid, the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—are slated for $1 trillion in cuts. Fourteen million children rely on Medicaid and SNAP for their basic health and nutrition needs. 

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]]> How the $1,000-per-baby ‘Trump accounts’ would work and who would benefit most https://firstfocus.org/news/how-the-1000-per-baby-trump-accounts-would-work-and-who-would-benefit-most/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:46:56 +0000 https://firstfocus.org/?post_type=news&p=34686 “The structure favors families who already have the means to save. It’s regressive by design,” said Michelle Dallafior, senior vice president of tax and budget at First Focus for Children, which noted on May 29 that the House reconciliation bill includes many provisions that would negatively impact lower income families

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]]> FEDERAL FALLOUT | ‘Going to have a huge impact’: Behavioral health professionals sound alarm on potential funding cuts https://firstfocus.org/news/federal-fallout-going-to-have-a-huge-impact-behavioral-health-professionals-sound-alarm-on-potential-funding-cuts/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:46:07 +0000 https://firstfocus.org/?post_type=news&p=34711 The Trump administration also announced in May a $1 billion cut to school-based mental health services grants, nonprofit First Focus on Children reported.

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]]> The Guardian view on Trump and children: protect the innocent from this dark vision of the US soul https://firstfocus.org/news/the-guardian-view-on-trump-and-children-protect-the-innocent-from-this-dark-vision-of-the-us-soul/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:36:16 +0000 https://firstfocus.org/?post_type=news&p=34637 Bruce Lesley, president of the advocacy organisation First Focus on Children, says that we may never have seen an administration “so laser-focused on targeting the nation’s children for harm”. Its dismantling of the Department of Education is on hold thanks to a judge.

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]]> Federal budget proposal includes major cuts to SNAP program https://firstfocus.org/news/federal-budget-proposal-includes-major-cuts-to-snap-program/ Fri, 23 May 2025 21:24:02 +0000 https://firstfocus.org/?post_type=news&p=34583 “The consequences of developmental delays and health problems are lifelong in young kids,” Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus on Children, stated at a new conference earlier this week. “It is just a fundamental tragedy that we are considering these enormous levels of cuts.”

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