Nov 15, 2025
With Disappointment at the Federal Level, Pennsylvania’s State Budget is a WIN for Kids. Ask most Pennsylvanians how they would grade the performance of their state and federal representatives and senators and they’d generously give them an F. In our estimation...
Nov 7, 2025
Families Spoke Up for Themselves on Tuesday While Democrats and Republicans are in their post-election huddles, debating what the election results mean to future campaign strategies, Children First has some words of wisdom: Families don’t want to be under...
Oct 31, 2025
Sticks and Stones and Names Will Hurt You Troublemaker. Disruptive. Difficult. These labels can follow a child around their whole life with devastating consequences. At a Philadelphia City Council hearing organized by Children First, teenagers shared their...
Oct 24, 2025
Arguments Against Soda Tax are All Flat In response to a 2015 landslide voter referendum in support of a tax on sweetened beverages, the Mayor and City Council passed the levy that pays for more than 5,000 children to attend pre-k, completed upgrades to 48 city...
Oct 17, 2025
Schools Forced to Make Due with Less Sometimes local reporting gets to the heart of an issue. Evan Brandt, the intrepid Pottstown Mercury journalist, wrote a compelling article on education funding that gets right to the point. Here is an excerpt of his full...
Oct 10, 2025
When Parents Lead, Families Thrive Young people are facing a mental health crisis but what about parents who are caring heavy mental and emotional loads? In 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General issued the advisory Parents Under Pressure, highlighting that parents are...
