...Another report by the Urban Institute and the New America Foundation discussed on Friday looked at changes in spending between 2006 and 2007, and found that while the overall children’s budget increased .7 percent, the non-child portions of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid grew 5.3 percent...

During times of rapid growth in discretionary spending, such as what occurred between 2001 and 2006, one would expect an opportunity for more funding to go toward children and children’s programs, said David Gray, director of the Workforce and Family Program for the New America Foundation... LINK (subcription only)

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