One Week, Three Big Wins for PA Kids FROM THE DESK OF MAI MIKSIC, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I've been doing policy and advocacy long enough to know that wins don't come easy; it’s a long game. Wins come from years of showing up at hearings, in district offices, in the...
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All the Children First News That's Fit to Print Have you heard the latest from Children First? Our Spring 2026 edition of Childwatch is filled with updates on the progress Children First is making for kids. Here are some highlights: Paid Family Leave Thanks to...
Someone’s Doing It Right
Support Can't Wait Until Crisis What if we stopped waiting for children to reach a breaking point before helping them? Across PA, families and schools are seeing the signs of children and teens struggling with their mental wellness, but too often, support...
Report: A Blueprint for Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s birth rate is dropping. Polling consistently shows young people are deciding not to grow their families because they financially cannot afford to have kids. Recent estimates show it takes about $32,000/year to raise a child in Pennsylvania. This is...
Are You Feeling Better?
Dangerous Snowball Effect of Bad Health Policy If national leaders really want to Make America Healthy Again, pushing kids off health insurance is not the way to go. In Pennsylvania today, more than 153,000 children do not have health insurance, the highest in...
RFK’s Dangerous Vaccine Crusade Risks Children’s Lives
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Our Message to Secretary Kennedy: America is not Denmark. The new vaccine regimen announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) is risky, irresponsible, and reckless. With no evidence to suggest otherwise, respected U.S. scientific experts tell us...
Keep the Fizz for Philly Kids
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...
Was it ever about Tylenol?
The Autism-Tylenol Link is Hard to Swallow The Presidential uproar about Tylenol is all growl and no bite. Think about it. Finally, America's top dog puts the cause of autism front and center and, instead of solutions, advances baseless claims that offers the...
A Backstop to Federal Cuts – 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...
Can private equity turn a profit on kids? – Mar 14, 2025
A Half-Billion Dollar Swindle in Delco Harms Children After the private equity owners of the Crozer Medical system in Delaware County extracted more than $500,000,000 from the system over the past nine years, it declared bankruptcy and the whole hospital...