May 23, 2025
THEY’RE MESSING WITH PENNSYLVANIAN’S CHILDREN Four TRILLION dollars in tax cuts passed at the expense of children and families. By a single vote, the U.S. House of Representatives just passed a massive budget bill that literally takes food and medical...
May 16, 2025
THIS IS WHAT COMMITMENT LOOKS LIKE Penn-Delco student Cameryn Knight-Branch didn’t mince words, standing in the rain as she sent her message to state lawmakers. “I am here in Harrisburg because PA students cannot wait any longer for you to step up and...
May 9, 2025
LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM THROUGH HEAD START The Philadelphia Inquirer published the following commentary written by Mai Miksic, Children First’s Deputy Director of Policy. Join Mai and other Head Start supporters by joining us in Washington, D.C. next...
May 2, 2025
IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE – AND IT NEVER SHOULD Every child should be safe from harm, but there is a special obligation to kids who are in the child welfare system because they were abused or neglected. It’s hard to forget the case, more than a decade ago,...
Apr 18, 2025
THROWING BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER Of all of the cost-cutting measures floated or implemented by the new administration, early learning for kids living in poverty wasn’t on the Bingo card for most of us. But the Heritage Foundation has long had its sights...
Apr 11, 2025
EVERY CHILD LEFT BEHIND Did you file your tax return yet for 2024? Eight out of ten of us will have done so by the time you read this email. But what are you getting for taxes Washington is collecting? When the tax year started on January 2024, parents of...
