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NH Governor Lynch Signs Law Increasing Access to Affordable Health Insurance |
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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.
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Call Congress: make sure kids get the coverage they need! |
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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.
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Iowa Gets It Right |
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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."
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More jailed women means more jailed mothers |
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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.
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The Economy Will Recover, Millions of Children Will Not |
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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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