If Medicaid cuts go through, and doctors’ offices are forced to close or states pull back on funding services, what happens to families like mine?

“Reducing the CVB significantly hinders access to fruits and vegetables for low-income mothers and young children at nutritional risk, the very populations this program was designed to protect. At a t...

Together, these proposals would dismantle the support systems families rely on and deal a devastating blow to infant and toddler development

Together, these proposals would dismantle the support systems families rely on and deal a devastating blow to infant and toddler development

Boteach: Babies can’t speak for themselves, so families and early childhood advocates are demanding that Congress to invest in our youngest kids.

Making more babies by threat, faux incentives, or even force is not a goal or a solution. And it ignores the desperate, real needs of families.

Urge Congress to reject budget cuts to programs that support babies and families.

More than 1.4 million Missourians need this vital program, including nearly 40% of our children. | Opinion

The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.

CONTACT: Gina Davis, gdavis@zerotothree.org; 202-864-2934 WASHINGTON, DC — ZERO TO THREE — the nation’s leading early childhood development nonprofit dedicated to ensuring all babies and toddlers have...

Social Security beneficiaries with higher incomes pay income tax on part of their benefits. Repealing the taxation of Social Security benefits, as President Trump has proposed, would be unwise...

Head Start providers logging onto the online funding system this morning found a message warning of delays because of "potentially unallowable grant payments."

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

Nancy Mace’s proposal to cut bathroom access for trans women in the Capitol is the latest in the building’s long history of excluding women lawmakers.

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ESSENCE got an exclusive look at the National Domestic Workers Alliance’s new portrait series, honoring the vital yet often-overlooked contributions of Black caregivers across the country.

As Republican leaders look for ways to offset the costs of a new set of tax cuts, social safety net programs are under discussion.