In 2024, a record 21.4 million people received their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. Enrollment gains among Black, Latino, and people with low incomes drove the increased enrollment. Sustaining the policy choices that led to record enrollment and adding in long…
Education has been long established as a fundamental right for all in the United States. Yet immigrant children and children in immigrant families face challenges such as barriers to enrollment, language access issues, and fears related to immigration enforcement.
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs provide care and support for farmworker families to help meet their unique needs. Every farmworker family should have access to these programs, but they are drastically underfunded and, as a result, only reach a small portion of eligible families.
Caucasian Mature woman posing with her son, very sad looking through window worried about loss of her job due Covid-19 pandemic
Youth mental health needs existed before the pandemic; indeed, while these needs were clearly growing for years there has long been a mismatch between the level of need and the services available.
A family’s income during the prenatal and early years of a child’s life plays a significant role in her health, well-being, and cognitive development, all of which shape her future outcomes. Evidence abounds on the positive impact that income support programs—especially cash transfers—have on children.
Medium shot of a group of adults sitting in a circle and talking to each other about their mental well-being. They are all wearing casual clothing. The community centre is located in Seaton Deleval in the North East of England.
In July 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) addressed the issue of low community participation in rulemaking with a memorandum encouraging federal agencies to look for “meaningful and equitable” opportunities for public input.
The Supreme Court's perspective doesn’t reflect the ways that holistic admissions allow colleges to take race into account as one of many factors that could shape a student’s lived experience.
Group of small children having meal at kindergarten.
With the expiration of the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, meal security is once again under threat for young children in many ways, including for family child care homes that participate in the Child and Adult Food Care Program.
I earnestly hope that President Biden’s commitment to ending racial disparities in our court & prison systems isn't simply political theater but a true promise to repair the legacy of the War on Drugs for those who look like me.
Children experience poverty through hardships like hunger and inadequate nutrition, insufficient access to health care, unstable housing and homelessness, and the toxic stress experienced by their parents.
