While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U. S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping, and reenergizing public support for children, and offers inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of five big cradle-to-college initiatives that can change the arc of all children's lives. | Kids First by David Kirp, Paperback | Indigo Chapters