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Child care policy advocates and early childhood educators testified on child care access and affordability in the U.S. before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.…

Social Security Administration (SSA) officials testified on identity fraud and what the agency is doing to combat it, during a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing. Margaret Hayward, one of the…

Michelle Bernier-Toth, the State Department’s special adviser for children’s issues, along with advocates, testified at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on children abducted by…

Fairplay executive director Josh Golin discussed the recent Surgeon General warning on the impact of social media on youth mental health.

Attorney General Merrick Garland gave remarks in honor of National Missing Children Day. He also talked about the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

University of Baltimore law professor Daniel Hatcher argued that the U.S. justice system commodifies the poor and children. Red Emma’s Bookstore in Baltimore hosted this event.

Journalist Roxanna Asgarian spoke about the foster care and adoption systems in the U.S. from her reporting on a murder-suicide case that claimed the lives of six adopted children.

Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the Health and Human Services Department, testified on the treatment of unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico…

Ryan Hanlon, president and CEO of the National Council for Adoption, talked about the adoption process in the U.S. and ways policymakers can improve it.

President Biden answered several questions from children of White House staff on “Take Your Child to Work Day.” Topics ranged from how he likes being president to what his favorite ice cream flavor is…

President Biden signed an executive order that is intended to expand care for children, seniors, people with disabilities, and others, and which provides more support for caregivers. He contrasted this…

Food for Thought: Universal School Meals was one of the second-prize middle school east division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Eva Sledge and Cassidy Waters, eighth graders at…

Frank Yiannas, the former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner for food policy and response during the nationwide 2022 baby formula shortage, told lawmakers the U.S. is “one outbreak,…

Bestselling author and journalist Jeff Hobbs talked about his book Children of the State, which looks at the workings of the juvenile justice system in the United States.

Barry Ford of the Council for a Strong America discussed a new report on the growing economic toll of inadequate child care in the U.S.

Fairplay executive director Josh Golin talked about efforts to protect children’s safety online.

Mental health practitioners, educators and students testified on the mental health needs of kids and teenagers before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on…

The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States held a hearing to examine a recent Interior Department investigation that found abuses at a majority of…

NPR’s Anya Kamenetz reports on the challenges American children faced before and post the COVID 19 pandemic. Book Passage Bookstore in San Francisco hosted this event.

Education policy writer Kerry McDonald discusses why she favors a non-traditional form of schooling that helps children learn by enhancing their inherent curiosity.