Tell our leaders to #Commit2Kids

Between now and the November 3 election, First Focus on Children is challenging candidates and elected officials nationwide to tell us what, exactly, they will do for our country’s children. Demand that they #Commit2Kids.

We must act now — before the American Dream slips away from the next generation.

In November, America will decide who gets to lead in Congress and in the White House. Before we cast a single ballot, we demand that our leaders make a commitment to children —

A commitment to cut child poverty in half by the end of the decade
A commitment to ensure all children have access to high-quality healthcare and early childhood programs
A commitment to protect children from abuse and neglect
A commitment to ensure a "best interest of the child" standard for all immigration decisions
And — above all — our leaders must commit to creating a Children’s Commissioner, an independent office that will hold the government accountable to these commitments once and for all.

We, the undersigned, demand that you commit to kids.

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COVID-19 has exposed an ugly truth in America — the kids aren’t alright.

Politicians like to say that children are the future. But last year hundreds of thousands lost health coverage for the first time in two decades, a record 1.2 million students were homeless, and a toddler is more likely to live in poverty today than an adult.

America’s children faced these challenges well before the public health and economic crises caused by the pandemic.

They will not disappear on their own.

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Tell our leaders to #Commit2Kids

We must act now — before the American Dream slips away from the next generation.

In November, America will decide who gets to lead in Congress and in the White House. Before we cast a single ballot, we demand that our leaders make a commitment to children —

A commitment to cut child poverty in half by the end of the decade
A commitment to ensure all children have access to high-quality healthcare and early childhood programs
A commitment to protect children from abuse and neglect
A commitment to ensure a "best interest of the child" standard for all immigration decisions
And — above all — our leaders must commit to creating a Children’s Commissioner, an independent office that will hold the government accountable to these commitments once and for all.

We, the undersigned, demand that you commit to kids.