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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 ...
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: Fact Sheet
Accompanies a detailed analysis of interstate funding disparities in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ...
October 24, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed a Fiscal Year 2012 Labor, HHS, Ed funding bill, while the House has released a draft bill. In assessing both bills for the total amount of funding for children, overall, the Senate bill provides $295 ...
September 21, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
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September 21, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
Why are these working families unable to get ahead? And what are the implications of this struggle for their children? In her paper, “Living on the Edge: America‟s Low-Earning Families”, Sophia Parker traces the current predicament of these ...
September 15, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
Largely ignored in the immigration debate are the 1 million children who make up approximately 10 percent of the undocumented immigrant population. Many of these children were brought to the U.S. at a young age, have been educated in American ...
September 15, 2011
Type: Fact Sheet
President Obama and Congressional leaders reached a deal on a bill, the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25), to raise national debt ceiling by $900 billion through early 2013. The bill passed the House (269-161) on August 1. On August 2 it was ...
