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Latest News: Child Poverty and Family Economics

Economic insecurity in childhood can often lead to lifelong disadvantages, ranging from poor health to low achievement in school. Helping working families provide that security is essential to ensure that all children can fulfill their potential. First Focus is working to lift the more than 14 million underprivileged American children out of poverty by increasing the federal investment in economic supports.

Raise parents’ low wages and raise their children’s opportunities

August 21, 2013

By Lisa Dodson and Randy Albelda

More than one in five kids would see a parent get a raise if the minimum wage were increased to $10.10

August 20, 2013

by Heidi Shierholz, Labor Market Economist, Economic Policy Institute

The Minimum Wage: A Children’s Issue

August 19, 2013

by Kevin Curran, First Focus

Raise the Wage, Invest in Kids

August 15, 2013

By Kevin Curran

 

Smart Strategies for Health Care Reform and Human Services Integration

August 15, 2013

By Julie Kashen with Sarah Fass Hiatt, for the Coalition for Access and Opportunity

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This primer, commissioned by the Coalition to Promote Access and Opportunity, highlights how the federal government, states and community partners can use the opportunity of health care reform impleme

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