MediKids: Sen. Kim’s Vision to Cover All Kids

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,…

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Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights - The American Prospect

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.

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The Cruelty and Recklessness Must End: We Need Better Immigration Policies for a Stronger America

Please join the Center for American Progress and America’s Voice to hear from Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and a panel of experts on the Trump administration’s cruel and reckless…

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A Proposed 400-Page OMB Rule Would Make It Easier to Defund Children's Programs Overnight

Comments on OMB's proposed grants rule close July 13. Here's why First Focus on Children is urging the Administration to withdraw it.

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2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Explore the 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book, with child well-being state-level data in four areas: economic stability, education, health, and family/community…

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Child well-being in Texas below national average, report shows

Texas lawmakers need to change policies to improve the lives of children, according to a recently released report.

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As schools close nationwide, Black students bear the greatest burden

Our research shows that school closures disproportionately impact Black students and those from low-income communities.

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Inside a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees, tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight

A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.

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‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted

Group has banded together to rescue data as Trump administration has removed or altered data on climate change, reproductive health, LGBTQ+ people and more

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Texas School Police Pepper-Sprayed, Tackled and Tasered Students

School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, our investigation shows.

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Texas’ discipline push sends kids to ‘jail-like’ campuses

Lawmakers increasingly view disciplinary alternative programs as a solution to behavior problems. Critics say they harm students.

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R.L. Stollar (@rlstollar.bsky.social)

"The framing of homeschooling as entirely beyond public accountability is harmful to children." Grateful for @brucelesley.bsky.social's discussion of homeschooling in this piece.…

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Children Are Not Property: The Case for Children’s Fundamental Rights…

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Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law

With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves

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DeSantis and Ladapo tout ‘freedom’ as measles rages • Florida Phoenix

“Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.” — Edward S. Herman, “Manufactured Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” In a number of articles on its website, PEN America…

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Medicaid Threats Endanger Children's Health Care

State Letters Threaten to End All Federal Medicaid Funding The Trump Administration’s decision to freeze more than a billion dollars in Medicaid funding

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Illinois bucks national book ban surge

New data shows more nonfiction and LGBTQ+ titles targeted in book bans across the U.S.

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Child Fatality Task Force releases report with recommendatio...

NC Child Fatality Task Force 2026 report urges stronger laws, funding on car seats, mental health, guns, safe sleep and child care as preventable child deaths p...

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Original science news reporting in Plain English.

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I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine

And I wish Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did too.

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Rx Kids associated with significant reductions in infant maltreatment investigations

Rx Kids, a community-wide cash prescription program for pregnant women and new parents that began in Flint, Michigan, was associated with a major drop in investigations of child maltreatment in…

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"Parental Rights" Conservatives Smear Connecticut's Attempt to Prevent Child Abuse

Today’s “parental rights” absolutism is actually a departure from the country’s constitutional history and tradition.

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Americans Once Understood Birthright Citizenship

Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.

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Adam Gamoran (@agamoran.bsky.social)

One of seven reasons for optimism: “The evidence base for investing in children has never been stronger.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Florida Delays Children’s Health Insurance Expansion as Uninsured Rate Rises - KFF Health News

Florida’s KidCare expansion has been stuck in legal limbo since February 2024. Since then, the number of uninsured children in Florida has risen to 400,000 — one of the highest state tallies.

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PEPFAR scientist resigns in protest

HIV clinician decries upending of long-running AIDS program for low-income countries

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