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We are working with allies across the country to achieve equitable state early childhood policy that supports young children and their families.

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In all 50 states, the Alliance for Early Success is making big, sustained impact possible. Take a closer look.

Rhode Island Advocates Leverage Alliance Responsive Support to Quickly Backfill SNAP Cuts With State TANF Funds

May 28, 2026

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program and a vital safety net that serves one in every eight Americans and helps millions of families afford groceries each month. In the fall of 2025, that safety net was suddenly threatened. As a consequence of the federal government shutdown, the federal administration halted November SNAP payments, marking the first time in the history of the program that benefits were disrupted. Rhode Island, child advocates and state leaders worked together and moved quickly to develop an innovative solution that helped keep food on the table for thousands of children.

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Making Connections that Accelerate Advocacy

When you combine connections to peers, access to experts, general operations funding, learning communities, and responsive assistance tailored to a state's landscape, you get a unique kind of support for state early childhood policy advocates that makes unexpected gains possible.

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Resource Centers

The Alliance for Early Success has deep expertise and extensive connections in a long list of early childhood policy areas.

In our resource centers, we connect state advocates—and the broader field—with research, briefs, data sets, state policy examples, and more that represent the latest state early childhood policy knowledge and resources that they need to plan and inform.

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In 2025:

100%
of states reported a policy win in child and maternal health, early care and education, and/or family economic security.
80%
of states with a legislative session reported a early childhood policy win that included a state budget increase.
80%
of states reported the successful defeat of a proposed policy harmful to young children—a 29 percent increase over 2024.