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12.02.24

Our Legislative Agenda for the 2025 Session

During the 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers will have the opportunity to make significant headway on challenges facing Texas kids and families. Certain issues have emerged as higher profile priorities for this particular session, including […]

Testimony, Video
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11.25.24

Watch: Testimony to Texas Senators on Access to Child Care

Our Director of Early Learning, David Feigen, testified to the Texas Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee on November 14, 2024 as the Committee discussed ways to improve access to child care. During his […]

Press release
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04.24.24

Texas School Readiness Dashboard — Now Updated!

Updated Texas data and policy recommendations on child care, child hunger, health care, family-child interactions, and other early childhood experiences that shape school readiness.

Report/Brief
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06.19.23

Our Final Report on the Legislative Session and TX Kids

What happened this session on health coverage, foster care, child care, pre-k, children's mental health, Early Childhood Intervention, and more.

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Press release
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05.27.25

We’re Thrilled the State Budget Includes $100 Million for Child Care!

Austin – Children’s advocates are celebrating the news that the final version of the 2026-2027 state budget released by the Texas Legislature includes a $100 million increase in funding for child care scholarships. “We’re thrilled […]

Blog
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05.23.25

Texas Resources on Medicaid and SNAP Cuts in Congress

On May 21st, the US House of Representatives passed the budget reconciliation bill with deep Medicaid and SNAP cuts that will take health care and food away from millions of Americans. The bill — sometimes […]

Blog
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05.22.25

The US House Passed Terrible Medicaid and SNAP Cuts Last Night

Last night, the US House passed their “mega-bill” with Medicaid and SNAP cuts that will take health care and food away from millions of Americans. The bill — also called a budget reconciliation bill and […]

Blog
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05.21.25

Texas Groups Urge Congress to Vote No On Medicaid Cuts

As the US House of Representatives prepares to vote on the budget reconciliation bill, 68 Texas organizations are urging members of Congress to vote no on the legislation because of it includes deep Medicaid cuts. […]

Op-ed
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05.11.25

For Mother’s Day, the Texas Legislature Should Invest in Child Care

This commentary originally ran in the Houston Chronicle. Like so many other Texas mothers, Kassandra Gonzalez hustles every day. She’s up early in the morning to drop off her two-year-old at his childcare center, giving him […]

Blog
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05.09.25

Medicaid Cuts Would Hurt Texans in Each Congressional District

Congress is rushing to make deep Medicaid cuts that would take health care away from kids, seniors, people with disabilities, and pregnant women — and make it harder to keep open our hospitals, health clinics, […]