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NH Governor Lynch Signs Law Increasing Access to Affordable Health Insurance E-mail
Joined by ECM in New Hampshire Field Director Rania Khoury and a group of Concord High School students, Gov. John Lynch signed SB 115, which will increase access to affordable health insurance by letting young adults buy into the state’s Healthy Kids Children’s Health Insurance Program.
 
Call Congress: make sure kids get the coverage they need! E-mail
This week the House Energy and Commerce Committee is finalizing health reform legislation that can improve children's health in America. Ask the House Energy and Commerce Committee to support amendments that improve and strengthen the portions of the bill relating to children. Helpful amendments could be considered as early as TODAY, so please call Members on the Committee.
 
Iowa Gets It Right E-mail
After successfully expanding health care coverage to almost every child in the state, Governor Culver says the state must work to bring the 25,000 children who aren’t signed up into the program and that another issue to be addressed is expanding coverage for mental health programs. He and Senator Jack Hatch (D-Des Moines), a key backer of the bill, did say that unless the feds come up with a national health care program, the state will not be able to continue to meet its health care goals. Hatch said the legislature would now look at expanding coverage for adults as well. Forced to cut $100 million from the state budget to achieve coverage for 99% of Iowa’s children, Culver said, "We still provided millions more for health care for kids. Budgets are about priorities."
 
More jailed women means more jailed mothers E-mail
According to a recent article in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the number of incarcerated women in Kentucky has nearly doubled since 2001, with roughly 2,200 women behind bars on any given day. The growing number of female prisoners is a nationwide phenomenon which experts attribute to increased drug use and less judicial leniency toward women with children.
 
The Economy Will Recover, Millions of Children Will Not E-mail
Turning Point: The Long Term Effects of Recession-induced poverty
Following four cohorts of children who lived through post-war American recessions for up to twenty years of adulthood, researchers at First Focus compared the differences in outcomes along income, employment, education, and health variables for three different categories of children: those who fell into poverty during a recession, those who stayed out of poverty during a recession, and those who were already living in poverty even before the recession began.

 
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