First Focus: 2019 Children's Budget Shows Spending on Debt Outstrips Spending on Kids for First Time
September 10, 2019
September 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- First Focus issued the following news release:
The 2019 Children's Budget book, released today by the bipartisan advocacy group First Focus on Children, reports that the United States -- for the first time ever -- spent a greater share of the federal budget servicing the national debt than on the children who will inherit it.
The share of federal spending on children has declined nearly 10 percent since 2015, according to the analysis, and h . . .
The 2019 Children's Budget book, released today by the bipartisan advocacy group First Focus on Children, reports that the United States -- for the first time ever -- spent a greater share of the federal budget servicing the national debt than on the children who will inherit it.
The share of federal spending on children has declined nearly 10 percent since 2015, according to the analysis, and h . . .