CFK Weekly: March 31, 2003
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NEW ON CONNECT FOR KIDS
**Trying to Prepare for the Unthinkable
**Help with Healing
**Citizens Toolkit on the Federal Budget and Tax Cuts
CONGRESS WORKING ON THE NATION'S BUDGET
**The Human Costs of Entitlement Cuts in the House Budget Resolution
**The National Priorities Project's Tax Day 2003 Factsheets
**Brookings Fellow Says Administration "Jobs and Growth" Package Will Do Neither
**The Proposed Housing Voucher Block Grant
EVALUATING WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T
**How and Why Nonprofits Use Outcome Information
**Gun Laws Get Credit for Homicide Declines
**Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver
**Maine Learns: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative
**Study Links Smart Start Child Care Quality and Children's Outcomes
**Large-Scale Teacher Training Improves Preschool Program Quality
**Ending Social Promotion: Results from Summer Bridge
**Resource Family Mentoring
**What Adolescents Learn in Organized Youth Activities
CHILD ADVOCATES CONCERNED ABOUT MAJOR CHANGES IN WELFARE
**House-Approved TANF Bill Could Hurt Children
**TANF Participation in 2001
SPECIAL EDUCATION REAUTHORIZATION BEGINS IN CONGRESS
**House Republicans Unveil IDEA Overhaul
**IDEA: Improving Educational Results for Children with Disabilities Act
RESOURCES FOR ACTION
**Preparing Tomorrow's Parents Today: How to Bring Parenting Education for Children
and Teens to Your School
**NACo Grant Program Launched
**Kick Butts Day--April 2
**KaBOOM! 2003 Playground Challenge
**Youth Decision-Makers Forum
**Youth Violence Prevention Week Kit
IMPROVING SCHOOLS
**Special Education Assessment Leeway
**State Politicians Grappling With Mixed Messages and Tight Budgets
**Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and Postsecondary Education
Systems Undermine Student Aspirations
TAX HELP FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND NONPROFIT AGENCIES
**Spreading the Word about EITC
**Tax Help for Low-Income Families
**Free Software for Nonprofits: "Desktop 990"
IMPROVING HEALTH CARE
**Rockefeller Promotes Health Plan
**New Medical Records Privacy Rule: The Interface with Teen Access to Confidential
Care
**Medicaid Medically Needy Programs: An Important Source of Medicaid Coverage
**Medicaid Facing Cuts
**A Conceptual Framework for Adolescent Health
**Health Sourcebook for Journalists 2003
ARGUING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
**Early Childhood Development: An Effective Economic Development Strategy
** Schools' Use of Assessments for Kindergarten Entrance and Placement: 1998-99
**Early Childhood Education Fact Sheets
FOCUS ON THE STATES
**Stateline Outlines the Impact of State Budget Crisis
**State-by-State News
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PRIVACY POLICY
NEW ON CONNECT FOR KIDS
**Trying to Prepare for the Unthinkable
The risk of a terrorist attack in this country causing large numbers of children
to be hurt remains quite small. Most of us don't even want to think about such
worst-case scenarios. But children's hospitals, emergency medical technicians
and pediatricians have a responsibility to prepare as best they can for whatever
might happen. Lisa Rhodes takes a look at their efforts.
http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_id=159201
**Help with Healing
Here are some resources on the Web to answer adults' questions about how to
help their kids cope.
http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_id=157890
**Citizens Toolkit on the Federal Budget and Tax Cuts
For children and families, the stakes are high as lawmakers in Washington move
towards approval of a federal budget for fiscal 2004. It's not too late to make
yourself heard on critical issues such as funding for education reform, children's
health, and nutrition. This Connect for Kids Toolkit will give you information
and tips on how to join the discussion.
http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?doc_id=159840
CONGRESS WORKING ON THE NATION'S BUDGET
Last week, the Senate passed a budget blueprint that reduced
the White House-backed House tax cut plan by half. Finding common ground in the
conference committee is likely to prove contentious, as conservatives say they'll
go no lower than the President's $726 billion tax cut package; liberals and some
moderates say they'll go no higher than the Senate's $350 tax cut package. The
size of the tax cut package will affect spending ceilings for education, health
care, child care and more as the budget process continues in Congress.
**The Human Costs of Entitlement Cuts in the House Budget Resolution
The House budget resolution calls for $265 billion in cuts in "mandatory" spending over the next decade. According to this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis, over 60 percent of these cuts -- $165 billion -- would come from programs for low-income families, including nutrition assistance, income support, health care, and child care. If these cuts become law, they would remain in effect at least through 2013, unless a future Congress enacted another law overturning some or all of them.
http://www.cbpp.org/3-27-03wel.htm
**The National Priorities Project's Tax Day 2003 Factsheets
Have you ever wanted where your tax dollars went? Here's a breakdown of how the federal government spent the average household's tax dollars last year for each state and city. It also highlights the cost and consequence of President Bush's currently proposed tax cuts.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/taxday2003/taxday03.html
**Brookings Fellow Says Administration "Jobs and Growth" Package Will Do Neither
In congressional testimony, "Testimony on the Administration's Tax Proposals," Brookings senior fellow Peter Orszag argued the Administration's tax cut package is not really the growth and jobs proposal the White House says it is because it is poorly designed for boosting economic growth in the short and long run.
http://www.brookings.edu/views/testimony/orszag/20030318.htm
**The Proposed Housing Voucher Block Grant
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CPBB) charges that the Bush administration
is using misleading arguments to justify its proposal to replace guaranteed federal
financing of low-income housing vouchers with a capped block grant. Block granting
the funding will hurt more families, argues CPBB's Director of Housing Policy
Barbara Sard, because with capped federal funding, states that raise voucher payments
in response to local rent increases would need to cut the number of families receiving
assistance.
http://www.cbpp.org/3-17-03hous.htm
EVALUATING WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T
Basing policy decisions on research is a good idea -- as long as the research is accurate and relevant. Here is a round up of recent evaluation research on the effectiveness of specific approaches and programs for children and families.
**How and Why Nonprofits Use Outcome Information
While more nonprofits are collecting outcome data for funders, they are less likely to make use of their findings to improve their services to clients. This report from a June 2002 symposium at the Urban Institute summarizes the next steps to establish a process that emphasizes outcome data ? including the need for improved technology to collect and analyze data, sharing best practices and institutionalizing the collection and use of outcome information in the nonprofit sector.
http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=310464
**Gun Laws Get Credit for Homicide Declines
Advocates on both sides use research to support their opposite positions on the effectiveness of gun safety laws. According to this Join Together review, while the evidence is not yet available to determine which combination of gun laws works best, the correlation between stricter laws and fewer gun deaths -- accidents, suicides and homicides -- is strong.
http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/features/reader/0%2C2061%2C562335%2C00.html
**Reaching More Hungry Children: The Seamless Summer Food Waiver
Kids don't stop eating just because it's summer. This Mathematica evaluation finds
that the seamless summer food waiver increased the number of sponsors in its first
year of general availability. Somewhat lower government reimbursement rates were
offset by cost savings from greater operational efficiency under the waiver. To
date, the waiver has had a limited effect on the number of children obtaining
summer meals, but as sponsors gain more experience with it, participation increases
could be substantial in the future.
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/pdfs/redirect.asp?strSite=seamlessisbr.pdf
**Maine Learns: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative
The Maine Education Policy Research Institute reports that Maine's pioneering
program to give laptop computers to all seventh and eighth graders in the state
already has positive effects on kids' learning. The majority of students (83 percent)
say the laptop has improved their work, and 90 percent say the laptops make schoolwork
fun. Teachers say students -- including those at-risk and in special education
programs -- are writing more and are willing to share their work in presentations.
Parents report that their children are more focused and interested in school.
http://www.usm.maine.edu/cepare/pdf/ts/mlti.pdf
**Study Links Smart Start Child Care Quality and Children's Outcomes
Child care centers participating in North Carolina's Smart Start improve in quality,
and preschoolers participating in such child care programs are ahead of their
peers who attend low-quality programs, over and above the effects of income, gender
and ethnicity, according to this study by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development
Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Children participating
in high-quality child care programs scored significantly better on language, book
awareness and knowledge, math and counting skills.
http://www.ncsmartstart.org/study.htm
**Large-Scale Teacher Training Improves Preschool Program Quality
High Scope's landmark research told the original success story on child outcomes for children participating in a program similar to Head Start. Now a major evaluation of system-wide training for early childhood staff and supervisors concludes that a large-scale and systematic approach to training is feasible ? and a promising approach for improving early childhood learning, especially for children at risk who need high-quality educational services the most.
http://www.highscope.org/NewsNotes/PressReleases/McGregorFund.htm
**Ending Social Promotion: Results from Summer Bridge
Summer programs that provide students with extra instructional time and remedial
support can improve their performance, even those with the most to gain, according
to this evaluation of Chicago's Summer Bridge program. Students in all three grades
(third, sixth and eighth) increased their test scores at a higher pace than their
school-year rate. Third graders at the highest risk of failure benefited the most
from the program. The findings also suggest that summer programs may be more effective
when teachers know their students and are able to extend school-year relationships
into the summer.
http://www.consortium-chicago.org/publications/p59.html
**Resource Family Mentoring
The idea to use mentors to help families is not new -- but making it work well sometimes takes a bit of fine tuning in the implementation, as the Casey Family Programs reports.
http://www.casey.org/cnc/recruitment/resource_family_mentoring.htm
**What Adolescents Learn in Organized Youth Activities
The findings in this Journal of Research on Adolescence article suggest that different youth activities offer distinct patterns of learning experiences. Youth reported more changes related to identity, pro-social norms and links to adults in service, faith-based, community, and vocational activities. Sports were a frequent context for changes related to identity and emotional development.
E-mail requests for reprints to David M. Hansen at dmhanse1@students.uiuc.edu
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CHILD ADVOCATES CONCERNED ABOUT MAJOR CHANGES IN WELFARE
**House-Approved TANF Bill Could Hurt Children
On March 11, fifty widely respected U.S. scholars sent an important statement to members of Congress on the effects of welfare reform on low-income children, noting that the new work participation requirements in the House-approved Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) legislation, in the absence of significant increases in funding for child care assistance, could harm children.
http://www.nccp.org/grassley.html
**TANF Participation in 2001
As lawmakers debate major changes to the mandated work requirements in the reauthorization of TANF welfare legislation, the Center on Law and Social Policy finds that the work participation rates and other relevant data differ greatly from state to state, making it hard for a federally mandated one-size-fits-all approach to help states and families maintain their welfare successes.
http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1048004065.37/2001_TANF_Participation.pdf
SPECIAL EDUCATION REAUTHORIZATION BEGINS IN CONGRESS
**House Republicans Unveil IDEA Overhaul
Education Week reports that early in March the House Republican lawmakers proposed big changes to the nation's main special education law ? the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) -- but a measure to guarantee full funding for special education and mention of school choice programs for students with disabilities were missing.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=28idea.h22
**IDEA: Improving Educational Results for Children with Disabilities Act
Here's a more detailed summary of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce's proposed changes to IDEA in its reauthorization bill, which included aligning IDEA with the No Child Left Behind standards, reducing paperwork burden, allowing a 3-year Individualized Education Plan, identifying students with specific learning disabilities before they fail, increasing professional development and training for teachers, and allowing districts to have one discipline policy for all children.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/2003/idea.house.bill.0319.htm
RESOURCES FOR ACTION
**Preparing Tomorrow's Parents Today: How to Bring Parenting Education for Children and Teens to Your School
This Parenting Project guide documents the need for parenting education for children and teens, describes available school-based programs, offers practical strategies for advocates in local communities, and provides extensive resource listings. Cost: $15 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
http://www.parentingproject.org/adman.htm
**NACo Grant Program Launched
Counties play a critical role in early childhood development and school readiness. To enhance the ability of county officials to provide such services, the National Association of Counties (NACo) is awarding $5000 to $7000 grants to at least four counties to highlight successful programs and support county efforts. The money is to support planning, a needs assessment and/or development and implementation of an action plan.
http://www.naco.org
**Kick Butts Day--April 2
After April Fools Day comes Kick Butts Day. Do you know what comes after that? Check the Celebrating Families calendar for April celebrations and important days in history. For conferences and events, check the Connect for Kids calendar.
http://www.connectforkids.org/calendar1569/calendar.htm
**KaBOOM! 2003 Playground Challenge
Twenty communities across the U.S. and Canada will get $5000 each to help plan and construct playgrounds from KaBOOM!, the playground folks. For more information, call 312-360-9520.
http://www.kaboom.org
**Youth Decision-Makers Forum
Youth Service America and its National Youth Advisory Council will share findings
from regional discussions on what it takes to include young people in decision-making
and to bring youth voices to scale, at the Third Annual Youth Decision-Makers
Forum (a pre-Conference to the National Service Learning Conference) on April
23, 2003.
http://www.nylc.org/conference2003/precon.cfm
**Youth Violence Prevention Week Kit
The National Youth Violence Prevention Week Action Kit has advice on how to form in-school coalitions, engage communities, gain publicity, and conduct activities for Youth Violence Prevention Week, April 7-11th. Activity suggestions for the week's themes ? promoting respect and tolerance, managing anger, resolving conflicts peacefully, supporting safety and unity in action ? are included.
http://www.ViolencePreventionWeek.org
**The Mary Lou Anderson Reflections Arts Enhancement Grant Program Local PTAs need to apply by May 1 for these $1000 matching grants to encourage student participation in the arts with new art materials or methods, or a visiting artist program.
http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/familyfun/mla.asp
IMPROVING SCHOOLS
**State Politicians Grappling With Mixed Messages and Tight Budgets
Current and past ballot initiatives, which often present conflicting demands
are tying the hands and narrowing the options available to state lawmakers trying
to fund education and balance the state budget during these hard times, reports
Education Week.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=28finance.h22
**Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and Postsecondary Education
Systems Undermine Student Aspirations
More middle school students than ever expect to go to college -- but, according
to this Stanford University report, unnecessary barriers between high school
and college undermine these aspirations. Students get little accurate information
to correct misperceptions about what college costs and who can get financial
aid, about what it takes to get in and stay in college. In addition the research
found that high school assessments often are disconnected from college entrance
and placement requirements.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/bridgeproject
**Special Education Assessment Leeway
A key policy question in implementing the No Child Left Behind act is how to
include students with disabilities and limited English proficiency when determining
whether schools and districts have met their performance targets. Education
Week summarizes the long-awaited regulations, published March 20 in The Federal
Register, which limit to one percent the number of students taking alternative
tests who could be held to a standard other than grade-level. Individuals have
30 days to comment on the draft rules.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=28esea.h22
**State Politicians Grappling With Mixed Messages and Tight Budgets
Current and past ballot initiatives, which often present conflicting demands
are tying the hands and narrowing the options available to state lawmakers trying
to fund education and balance the state budget during these hard times, reports
Education Week.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=28finance.h22
**Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K-12 and Postsecondary
Education Systems Undermine Student Aspirations
More middle school students than ever expect to go to college -- but, according
to this Stanford University report, unnecessary barriers between high school
and college undermine these aspirations. Students get little accurate information
to correct misperceptions about what college costs and who can get financial
aid, about what it takes to get in and stay in college. In addition the research
found that high school assessments often are disconnected from college entrance
and placement requirements.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/bridgeproject/
TAX HELP FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND NONPROFIT AGENCIES
**Spreading the Word about EITC
If you want to help your neighbors get their EITC refunds, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities EITC Outreach Kit can help.
http://www.cbpp.org/eic2003/index.html
**Tax Help for Low-Income Families
If your earned and gross income is less than $29,201 ($30,201, if filing a joint return) and you have one qualifying child, you may be eligible for a refund even if you don't owe any federal income tax. The Earned Income Tax Credit is the most effective family anti-poverty program for low-wage parents. You can find out how to file from your local tax assistance center.
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96456,00.html
**Free Software for Nonprofits: "Desktop 990"
Even nonprofits have to pay taxes. Here is online software and help for e-filing your Form 990 and related forms from the Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics.
http://efile.form990.org
IMPROVING HEALTH CARE
**Rockefeller Promotes Health Plan
Do you think kids should have the same kind of health care coverage that Medicare
provides for seniors? So does Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who, according to
the Charleston Daily Mail, is proposing MediKids, a federal health program that
would guarantee all American children comprehensive health coverage from birth
through age 23. Lower income families would pay no premiums or co-payments,
while wealthier parents would pay a graduated premium based on income.
http://www.dailymail.com/news/Money/2003031219
**New Medical Records Privacy Rule: The Interface with Teen Access to
Confidential Care
Under a new federal rule to take effect in April, a state law granting teens
the right to consent to reproductive health care no longer means that the issue
of confidentiality is settled in that state. This Guttmacher Institute report
examines the history of privacy protections for minors seeking health care and
explores the potential impact of the new White House regulation that calls into
question existing state-level protections to a range of confidential services.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/gr060106.html
**Medicaid Medically Needy Programs: An Important Source of Medicaid
Coverage
The Kaiser Family Foundation describes how the medically needy option for Medicaid
coverage works for low-income families.
http://www.kff.org/content/2003/4096
**Medicaid Facing Cuts
The Administration has proposed restructuring Medicaid, eliminating the guaranteed
funding for states to cover all who are eligible and capping the funding in
the future. The Florida Institute for Family Involvement has put together talking
points and tools for advocates who want to oppose such cuts.
http://www.fifionline.org/ac.html
**A Conceptual Framework for Adolescent Health
What are the essential services for adolescent health? This project of the Association
of Maternal and Child Health Programs and the State Adolescent Health Coordinators
Network identifies the key 10, which include: monitoring teen health, diagnosing
and investigating health problems and hazards, educating youth and families,
mobilizing community partnerships, linking youth and their families to needed
services, assuring the capacity and competency of public health systems, evaluating
health services and supporting research and demonstration projects to further
the field. Call 202-775-0436 (Washington, DC) for more information.
http://www.amchp.org
**New Medical Records Privacy Rule: The Interface with Teen Access
to Confidential Care
Under a new federal rule to take effect in April, a state law granting teens
the right to consent to reproductive health care no longer means that the issue
of confidentiality is settled in that state. This Guttmacher Institute report
examines the history of privacy protections for minors seeking health care and
explores the potential impact of the new White House regulation that calls into
question existing state-level protections to a range of confidential services.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/gr060106.html
**Health Sourcebook for Journalists 2003
Uninsured children are five times more likely to use the emergency room as a
regular source of care than children with health insurance. Some 8.5 million
children under the age of 18 were uninsured for all of 2001. Medicaid covered
more than one in four kids ? or 23.9 million children -- at some point during
2002. While children account for 51 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid, their
services consume only 15 percent of the program's budget. Find out more from
the annual Alliance for Health Reform sourcebook on health policy issues.
http://www.allhealth.org/sourcebook2002/index.html
ARGUING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
**Early Childhood Development: An Effective Economic Development Strategy
When people who concentrate on the bottom line call for more public investment in early childhood development programs because they offer the greatest economic return for the money, child advocates should pay close attention. This Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis analysis argues that most of the projects and initiatives that state and local governments fund in the name of creating new jobs result in few public benefits, but dollars invested in early childhood yield extraordinary public returns.
http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/fedgaz/03-03/earlychild.cfm
** Schools' Use of Assessments for Kindergarten Entrance and Placement: 1998-99
More than half (61 percent) of the nation's schools use some form of entrance or placement tests for kindergarten-age children, reports the National Center for Education Statistics. While usage varies, the test information is more likely to be used to evaluate the needs of children and to help guide instruction than to make decisions about whether children should be allowed to enter school.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003004.pdf
**Early Childhood Education Fact Sheets
What does the research say about the impact of early care, what quality care looks like and why it matters, public attitudes and building community support are four new fact sheets for briefing local media and leaders about the importance of early childhood learning, from the Communications Consortium Media Center.
http://www.earlycare.org
FOCUS ON THE STATES
**Stateline Outlines the Impact of State Budget Crisis
Stateline.org looks at how ordinary people and communities are being affected by current state budget crises, and how governors are changing their minds about taxes in the face of budget shortfalls that threaten essential services in their states, like health care and higher education. A separate article looks at the impact on education funding.
http://www.stateline.org
** State-by-State News
Connecticut
Governor Rowland had high praise for school readiness and child care programs in his testimony in Washington, DC, but Connecticut Voices for Children says the Governor's budget people are proposing to cut funding for early learning programs by nearly three million dollars.
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/CTvoices/kidslink/kidslink2
Georgia
The Campaign for Juvenile Justice in Georgia is seeking to redress the negative impacts of state legislation that for the last decade has given prosecutors, instead of judges, the authority to decide when to send youth to the adult criminal justice system.
http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/statebystate/sb440_policybrief.html
Illinois
The Illinois earned income tax credit (EITC) helps offset the disproportionate burden of state and local taxes for low-income, working families. But unlike the federal credit, the Illinois EITC is not refundable -- or available to those who don't pay income tax -- so it fails to reach the most impoverished families. Illinois Voices for Children says that the June expiration of the state EITC provides an opportunity to make it permanent and refundable.
http://www.voices4kids.org/alert032403.html
Louisiana
Advocates are fighting for better, and more cost-effective, alternatives to Louisiana's heavy emphasis on arbitrary juvenile detention policies. Advocates are celebrating a 10-1 vote on March 6 by members of the Louisiana Juvenile Justice Commission to adopt reform recommendations, including the closure of a juvenile correctional facility in Louisiana.
http://www.jjpl.org
Maryland
Advocates in Maryland are working to reduce racial disparities in the state's juvenile justice system. For testimony, policy briefs, fact sheets and additional background information on racial disparities in Maryland's juvenile justice system.
http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/statebystate/maryland.html
Michigan
Detroit residents' "top youth health concern" is the number of uninsured kids, according to a local poll, but lack of awareness of state programs and difficulty retaining children in the programs "have been the biggest problems in getting kids the care they need," reports the Detroit News.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/news/index.php?Next=235
New York
Justice 4 Youth Coalition members testified before the New York City Council on March 6, urging council members to cancel $14 million in funds in the capitol budget earmarked for youth jail beds and to reallocate these funds for schools, after-school programs and other alternatives to incarceration.
http://www.correctionalassociation.org/juvenile_proj.html
Rhode Island
Rhode Island has made "a remarkable commitment" to the idea that access to health care is as fundamental as access to education, and state leaders want to keep it that way, reports Covering the Uninsured.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/news/index.php?Next=232
Texas
Some Texas lawmakers have proposed eliminating the state's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to alleviate budget shortfalls, though Republican Governor Rick Perry, who was involved in the creation of the state's program, said he thinks it will continue, reports the Associated Press.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/news/index.php?Next=233
California
Saying that lack of health insurance is "California's most pressing problem," organized labor launched a statewide campaign to pass legislation pending in the state senate that would require employers to provide health insurance for workers and their families, or pay into a state health insurance fund, the Los Angeles Times reports.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/news/index.php?Next=231
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports on the initial success of Texas ? simplified eligibility program for children's Medicaid.
http://www.kff.org/content/2003/4092
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Jan Richter, Policy and Outreach Specialist, and the Connect for Kids team
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