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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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Judge orders Illinois to maintain child-welfare standards |
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According to an AP article last week, a federal
judge directed Illinois state officials to maintain court-ordered
child-welfare standards he said would be seriously threatened by the
budget under consideration in Springfield.
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Reuniting Foster Kids with Their Families: Good Sense, Good Savings |
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Kathleen Merriman of The News Tribune serving Tacoma,
Washington, writes of a program recently resurrected by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development with $20 million allocated
by Congress to reunite foster kids with their families. You might
wonder why this sounds like a good idea considering they were most
likely taken out of their homes and put in foster care for good reason
in the first place. The answer is less than cut and dried. Merriman
quotes the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare: '"On any
given day, over half a million children live apart from their families
in America's foster care system ... As many as a third of these
children are separated from their families because their parents lack
access to safe, decent affordable housing."'
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