“Nearly 59 percent of Americans support birthright citizenship, whereas 24 percent oppose it.” Study: Americans support birthright citizenship www.rochester.edu/newscenter/c...

Some good news… Kansas moves closer to updating Children’s Health Insurance Program eligibility stuck in 2008  • Kansas Reflector kansasreflector.com/2026/03/14/k...

Children often face deportation hearings alone — with little public scrutiny | WBUR News www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

America’s Babies Get a Tiny Slice of the Federal Budget – The 74 www.the74million.org/zero2eight/a...

In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation - The New York Times

As ICE Moved In, Minnesotans Set Up a Shadow Medical System. It’s a Lesson for Other Cities. - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Terrible Toxics: How the EPA Rollbacks Are Betraying Child Health brucelesley.substack.com/p/terrible-t...

First Focus on Children Tells Supreme Court: Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Irreparably Harm Every Baby Born in America firstfocus.org/news/first-f...

Catholic bishops push for end to ‘immoral’ birthright citizenship order at Supreme Court | Courthouse News Service www.courthousenews.com/catholic-bis...

Colorado tax credits cut child poverty by more than a third - Denver Post

The ‘SAVE America Act’ Threatens Children’s Representation open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Be Careful What You Ask For: The Parental Rights Trap and the Cost to Children brucelesley.substack.com/p/be-careful...

Can We Just Let Teens Exist in Public? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

The feds child care cuts will hurt Minnesota kids • Minnesota Reformer minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/t...

What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children - NY Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Education Department firings cost over $28 million, report says : NPR www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

‘These kids are invisible’: Child abuse deaths spur clash over homeschool regulation • Stateline stateline.org/2026/01/29/t...

Trump Administration Destroys the Systems that Support and Protect America’s Children janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/t... by Jan Resseger

Trump's cuts to mental health programs includes Cook County drug court, Illinois providers - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world...

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Watch: How the Trump Administration Is Remaking Public Education — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Misguided Push to Abolish the Department of Education firstfocusonchildren.substack.com/p/the-misgui...

The Trump Administration’s Culture of Death to Children | Marci A. Hamilton | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia verdict.justia.com/2025/12/30/t...

Why Kennedy’s Message on Parental Rights, HIPAA, and Kids’ Medical Records Misses the Point open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Childhood trauma to prison: How trauma fuels the vicious cycle | Public News Service app.publicnewsservice.org/story/childh...

Mamdani is building a universal child care team, but faces daunting financial and logistical challenges - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The CDC revives debunked ‘link’ between childhood vaccines and autism : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho... Under RFK Jr.,, the CDC rewrote its vaccine safety page to spread misinformation and doubt about vaccines. This will harm children.

Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities firstfocus.org/update/recent-… by Chad Bolt and Lily Klam

What the America First Global Health Strategy Means for the World’s Children leilanimatallah.substack.com/p/what-the-a...

How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement - The Washington Post

1 in 4 AZ kids relies on SNAP. State's dismal childhood poverty record leading to a perfect storm www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

‘This perfect storm:’ How Idaho Medicaid cuts could affect everyone’s health care access | Local | idahostatejournal.com www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/t...

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Baby beaten and burned to death with hot liquid by parents - US News - News - Daily Express US www.the-express.com/news/us-news...

The impact of losing SNAP benefits and a Head Start school closure on this grandmother : NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...

Remembering when @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @WhiteHouse promised tariffs revenues for CHILD CARE. (1)

Study: Louisiana’s child poverty rate increase leads US thecurrentla.com/2025/study-l...

The Trump Admin must release the SNAP contingency fund today so that 16 million kids do not start going hungry tomorrow. It’s that simple.

Money Matters: The Nation’s Retreat from Kids brucelesley.substack.com/p/money-matt... First Focus on Children released our annual report yesterday, Children's Budget 2025. The findings show a 30+% decline in the share of federal funding to children from 2021 to Trump's FY 2026 budget proposal.