Children’s Meal Program Keeps Expanding In Alachua County

Every year, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service funds a national summer food service program which helps feed children 18 and under during the summer break from school. Alachua County Public Schools is the sponsor for sites in the county with its Food and Nutrition department.

U.S. to update judge as deadline looms to reunite migrant kids

FILE PHOTO: Immigrant children walk in single file at the facility near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike B - The U.S. government will update a federal judge on Tuesday about its efforts to meet a Thursday deadline for reuniting roughly 2,500 immigrant children and parents who were separated by officials as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump administration seeks to stop ‘climate kids’ lawsuit

The Trump administration has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in its effort to stop a lawsuit filed by young activists who say the government is failing to protect them from climate change. Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the court Tuesday to block further legal proceedings until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the government's latest request to have the lawsuit dismissed.

Trump Says Border Policy Mirrors Obama’s, Denigrates Immigration

President Donald Trump falsely claimed that his administration hadn't implemented new policies leading to the separation of children from their parents at the U.S. border, and said immigration is changing Europe "and I don't mean in a positive way." Trump was told during an interview on Air Force One with British journalist Piers Morgan that protests against his visit across the U.K. were a response to his administration's policy of child separation.

Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually - a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million dollars in 2017.

Malala slams Trump’s child separation policy

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai described as "cruel" a policy launched by US President Donald Trump to separate children of illegal immigrants from their families, during her first visit to South America to promote girls' education. More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents after the Trump administration began a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigrants in early May, seeking to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally from Mexico into the United States.

Man with history of sex crimes working at Kansas shelter for unaccompanied migrant children

A man with a history of serious sex crimes allegations is working at a shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in Topeka, Kansas, according to public records reviewed by ThinkProgress. Jeffrey J. Montague, 63, of Topeka, Kansas, is the human resources manager at The Villages, a nonprofit that has a $5.9 million contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to house unaccompanied migrant children But Montague has an especially checkered past.

Scholars dismantle the myth policing trans kids’ genders

Experts push back on a number of flawed studies and claims about the desistance myth, popular with parents eager to stop their transgender children from transitioning. As debate rages over how best to care for children who are gender nonconforming, a group of Canadian scholars are working to change the way families and care providers respond.