With the support of the AFL-CIO, a national day-laborer advocacy group is petitioning President Obama to stop deporting undocumented immigrants while Congress considers an immigration reform bill that would provide them with a path to US citizenship. Read Full PostGroup Petitions Obama to Suspend Deportation originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 03:00:38.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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Ensuring access to quality child care is a smart investment
Policy For Results blog24 May 2013 | 6:37 amAffordable, high-quality child care is of tremendous importance for working families. In most families, all of the adults work outside the home and 32.9% of children under five receive regular child care from non-relatives. Early childhood is a critical phase for a child’s brain development; a stimulating, supportive environment is important for all children, and quality child care is important for children’s health, well-being and readiness for school. Researchshows that high-quality child care can have positive impacts on a child’s life in a number of ways - including higher…
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Group Petitions Obama to Suspend Deportation
23 May 2013 | 8:00 pmWith the support of the AFL-CIO, a national day-laborer advocacy group is petitioning President Obama to stop deporting undocumented immigrants while Congress considers an immigration reform bill that would provide them with a path to US citizenship. Read Full PostGroup Petitions Obama to Suspend Deportation originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 03:00:38.Permalink | Comment | Email this -
John McCain Wants to Cut Your Cable Bill
22 May 2013 | 8:00 pmU.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), has introduced a bill that would allow cable TV subscribers to buy individual channels, rather that more expensive channel "bundles," and limit the National Football League's ability to "blackout" local TV coverage of its games. Read Full PostJohn McCain Wants to Cut Your Cable Bill originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 03:00:23.Permalink | Comment | Email this -
Up to 20 Percent of US Kids Have Mental Disorder: CDC
21 May 2013 | 8:00 pmRemember your parents' question, "What's wrong with kids these days?" Well these days, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that up to 1 in 5, or as many as 12 million U.S. kids are affected by at least one of a variety of recognized mental disorders. Read Full PostUp to 20 Percent of US Kids Have Mental Disorder: CDC originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 03:00:08.Permalink | Comment | Email this -
VA to Work Overtime on Veterans' Benefits Claims
20 May 2013 | 8:00 pmAfter getting pretty well beaten up for taking so long to process veterans' disability benefit claims, the Veterans Administration (VA) has ordered its employees to work overtime to catch up on it. Read Full PostVA to Work Overtime on Veterans' Benefits Claims originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 03:00:35.Permalink | Comment | Email this -
CDC Warns of Feces in Swimming Pools
19 May 2013 | 8:00 pmSummer is here. Everybody in the pool! But don't drink the water, because a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study has found that human feces are frequently introduced into public pool water by swimmers, greatly increasing the threat of E. coli contamination. Read Full PostCDC Warns of Feces in Swimming Pools originally appeared on About.com US Government Info on Monday, May 20th, 2013 at 03:00:50.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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Ensuring access to quality child care is a smart investment
24 May 2013 | 6:37 amAffordable, high-quality child care is of tremendous importance for working families. In most families, all of the adults work outside the home and 32.9% of children under five receive regular child care from non-relatives. Early childhood is a critical phase for a child’s brain development; a stimulating, supportive environment is important for all children, and quality child care is important for children’s health, well-being and readiness for school. Researchshows that high-quality child care can have positive impacts on a child’s life in a number of ways - including higher… -
How Family Food Security Supports the Economy and Children's Health
16 May 2013 | 5:05 pmBy supporting children’s healthy development policymakers help to provide the foundation needed for children to grow into thriving adults. A critical aspect of child health is food security. Several federal and state programs are aimed at ensuring children and families have access to adequate nutrition. These investments often also have benefits for the economy. Programs like WIC, Healthy Food Financing, School Nutrition Programs and SNAP are all aimed at ensuring food security for poor and low-income families. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a… -
Quality Legal Representation for Parents as a Change Agent in Child Welfare | Guest Blogger! Martha Raimon
17 Apr 2013 | 9:11 amResearch in child welfare suggests that children do best in their own families and should remain home with their parents whenever possible. When that is not possible, children should be returned to their families or moved to another permanent home as quickly as possible consistent with safety concerns. Experts understand that children experience trauma when they are removed from their families and separation from family should be a last resort after effective attempts at strengthening the family have not been successful. Too often, due to the structure of child welfare systems and… -
The President’s FY 2014 Budget; New Resource from CSSP
11 Apr 2013 | 9:46 amToday President Obama released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Budget, which outlines the administration’s policy agenda and budget request for federal spending in the upcoming year and sets the tone for the national policy agenda moving forward. The federal budget becomes the guide by which every major spending and revenue decision is made, making it one of the largest policy vehicles for supporting children and families. While the process this year has been a bit unorthodox, with the Senate and House releasing their FY14 budget proposals before the White House released their budget… -
The Sequester Goes Into Effect: Bad News for Low-Income Families
3 Apr 2013 | 11:43 amRecently Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through the remainder of fiscal year 2013, but unfortunately the sequester was not eliminated. Because the sequester contained $1.7 trillion over 10 years in across-the-board cuts to non-defense discretionary programs, all areas impacting children and families will be affected: education, health care, juvenile justice, child welfare and social services just to name a few.Federal agencies have already implemented the scheduled cuts. Head Start and child care programs have cut their 2013 budgets by about 5 percent by…
