Giving Compass' Take:

• Nathaniel Weixel reports that the number of uninsured children grew in 2017 for the first time in 10 years, thanks in large part to states that not expanded Medicaid.

• How can funders effectively increase the number of insured children? 

• Learn about the fight to expand Medicaid.

The number of uninsured children in the U.S. increased for the first time in a decade, according to a new report that puts much of the blame on policies spearheaded by Republicans.

An estimated 3.9 million children did not have health insurance in 2017, an increase of 276,000 compared to the previous year, according to the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.

No state made statistically significant progress on children’s coverage last year, despite an improving economy and low unemployment rate, according to the report, which noted that the District of Columbia made substantive gains in 2017.

Three-quarters of the children who lost coverage between 2016 and 2017 live in states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage to parents and other low-income adults, the report found. The uninsured rates for children in non-expansion states increased at almost triple the rate as states that have expanded Medicaid.

Read the full article about the number of uninsured children by Nathaniel Weixel at The Hill.