The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.

Scotland is making progress on child poverty, and this week its Parliament doubled down on doing more. In the United States, the child poverty target hasn't even been reintroduced.

Posamentier & Adams: The result could be more chaotic kindergarten classes and diminished social readiness that will extend to HS and beyond.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

The El Paso tent camp has seen at least three detainee deaths, a measles outbreak and nearly 50 detention standards violations in less than a year of operation.

Every year, Congress devotes dedicated resources and sustained attention to veterans, to older Americans, to Native Americans, to small businesses, and to other constituencies with committee resources...

Medicaid and CHIP enrollment has fallen by 2.3 million children. Georgetown is asking what happened to them. The Trump Administration and its defenders are hoping you ignore the evidence.

The debate is framed as parents versus government. But the children whose safety, privacy, and health are at stake are too often missing from the picture.

What First Focus on Children does, why this work is personal to me, and why children need someone watching the decisions made in their name.

Brief argues banning transgender, LGBTQ+-family children from universal pre-K is illegal, harmful to children First Focus on Children has filed

After losing its effort to restrict birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, the Trump Administration is seeking to restrict passports to children and to make them citizenship permission slips.

How a 2003 Medicare formula is costing states a record $23.2 billion this coming year and shortchanging children’s programs.

In a new investigative report, ProPublica has identified at least 15 babies and children in Idaho who died between 2015 and 2025 from conditions doctors say were treatable, such as pneumonia, sepsis, ...

Krugman and Waldman have the right diagnosis but wrong prescription.

As a nation we can do so much better for young children and families.

And if parental rights are fundamental, they should not stop being fundamental the moment other parents disagree with the parental rights movement leaders.

A court already blocked this rollback once. The new version calls itself freedom, but only for the adults making the choice and not the children left unprotected.

August 11, 2026

Millions of children in single-parent households begin life with disadvantages that are not of their making.

And the false history the White House used to try to sell them.

There is far more to what happened at the Texas GOP Convention than the story about the elephant peeing all over the convention floor.

Ten things to ask any politician who wants your vote this November — for Congress, for governor, or for your state legislature.

Start with what nearly everyone in this fight agrees on.

A response to the Washington Post's editorial against covering every child and the question the Post’s editorial board seems shockingly unconcerned about: what happens to the kids left uncovered?

Start with what nearly everyone in this fight agrees on.

The American people do not believe that children should be sick, in pain, or without preventive care like vaccinations and annual check-ups based on the wealth of a child’s parents, their zip code, th...

As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter

Updates 2026 Open Letter to the National Assessment Governing Board: Stop Letting Others Lie About Our Children with Your Data Popular Lies About Test Scores Corrupt Debates About the Progress of O…

YouTube video by Senator Andy Kim

Texas wants to regulate the moment a teacher asks a kid how they're doing, and here is why parents, teachers, and child advocates across the country should also care.

The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.

Ten bills up for a vote this week would give school districts four federal agencies to deal with instead of one and eliminate the only Cabinet seat focused on children.

NAEP Proficient is not grade level. It never has been. They have an ethical responsibility to correct the public misuse of the data.