The Children First Act aims to expand child care affordability, enhance child health and safety, and reduce infant and fetal mortality in North.
The Children First Act expands child care affordability and access by increasing the maximum income eligibility for child care subsidies, adjusting the sliding scale for copayments, and providing grants for new child care facilities in underserved areas. It enhances child health and safety by implementing stricter age verification for tobacco and cannabis sales, regulating social media platforms to protect minors, and mandating firearm safe storage awareness.
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