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January 31, 2012
Type: Letter
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has drafted regulations defining "essential health benefits" for health insurance exchange marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act. This letter conveys First Focus's comments on the draft ...
January 26, 2012
Type: Fact Sheet
The federal government funds over 180 different children’s programs, from child health and education to child welfare and juvenile justice. Children’s Budget 2011 is a comprehensive guide to all federal spending on children and an invaluable ...
January 26, 2012
Type: Fact Sheet
With passage of final appropriations bills, FY 2012 will be for the first time, the second year in a row that discretionary funding for kids has been cut. In total, when adjusted for inflation, discretionary funding for kids will decline by more ...
January 9, 2012
Type: Messaging Resource
A brief set of talking points recommended for use by state advocates to connect successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act with a track-record of success covering uninsured children through CHIP and Medicaid. These talking points were ...
December 20, 2011
Type: Report
The recession continues to take a heavy toll on children and their families. A new First Focus analysis authored by Brookings scholar Julia Isaacs reveals the recession’s continuing effects – often unseen through conventional economic metrics ...
December 13, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
An analysis by University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Berkeley researchers shows that a proposed U.S. Treasury Department rule could deny health care insurance to more than 70,000 California children and hundreds of ...
December 9, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
Updated January 20, 2012 The refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) offers an economic lifeline to low-income families that translates directly into the well-being of their children. Research shows that an increase of as little as $1,000 in family income ...
December 8, 2011
Type: Report
Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding helps states meet children's basic needs, like child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention, child care, and even job training. But a flawed block grant formula has put some ...
December 8, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
Accompanies a detailed analysis of interstate funding disparities in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ...
December 1, 2011
Type: Letter
These comments were submitted by First Focus to the U.S. Department of Labor on December 1, 2011 in response to the agency’s proposed child labor regulations aimed at strengthening the protections for youth working in the agricultural sector and ...
