Family Well Being News
"Except the extra hours bumped Fajardo's pay over the income limit for a child-care voucher, which subsidizes her son's care while she's at work. Child care is the single most expensive item in the budgets of low-income mothers."
"Family-planning centers that largely serve low-income women would lose all of their state funding - $7.5 million - under the budget Gov. Christie proposed Tuesday. The cut, one of many in Christie's plan, falls in line with his clearly stated goal of slashing spending..."
"The bill would slice funds for child care assistance by more than $7 million and would reduce the number of people eligible for the assistance by lowering the threshold from 127 percent of the federal poverty level to 107 percent."
"Disaster, like clockwork, is averted. Low-income working parents have a safe place to leave their preschoolers. The frail and the elderly make their way to a free, healthful meal at a community center. "
"Flooded with more homeless families than the city has ever seen, District officials have jammed up to 200 families into space at the D.C. General shelter meant for 135. "
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2008, low-income, preschool Hispanic children had the second highest obesity rates (18.5%) in the nation, after American Indian/Alaska Native preschoolers (21.2%)."
"A 12-year-old state program to help children in low-income families get off to a healthy start and get ready for school has such scattered oversight that it could be prone to fraud, according to the state budget director."
"We found the highest rates of overweight or obesity in kids who were black (41.1%), Spanish-speaking Hispanic (45%), living below the poverty level (44.8%), publicly insured (43.2%) and those who did not participate in activities outside of school (40.3%)."
"Anisha Valdez, 26, lives there with her husband and four children, including their 4-month-old baby. Their $1,050-a-month rent is paid with government-issued Housing Choice Vouchers to a landlord with a history of code violations, records show."
"Sherri Ansley, executive director over the charity's housing, provided Jones with a list of phone numbers for homeless shelters, food pantries and other charitable housing programs. The charity also gave Jones $200, Ansley said"
"The results of the Collier County homeless count shows the number of homeless children has skyrocketed by 56 percent since last year, according to the Collier County Hunger and Homeless Coalition."
"Many parents cannot afford to pay any more for their child care -- with costs rivaling their rent or mortgage payments -- and many workers cannot afford to make any less, with their wages near the poverty level."
"The book encompasses literacy and language first and foremost, Sapphire says, but it also looks at poverty and welfare; HIV transmission among heterosexuals; colorism"
"Desensitized bureaucrats too often equate poverty with neglect and seize children away from biological parents whose only "offense" is hardship, critics charge."
"Twenty-five percent of African Americans, 23 percent of Latinos, and 9 percent of whites live in poverty. Overall, 13 percent of the U.S. population is poor. In Philadelphia, it's closer to 25 percent."
"The Indiana Department of Child Services has cut millions of dollars from its Healthy Families program, leaving social service providers worried that counseling fewer at-risk parents could lead to more child abuse and neglect."
"The mortality rate of California women who die from causes directly related to pregnancy has tripled in the past decade, prompting doctors to worry about the dangers of obesity in expectant mothers and about medical complications of Caesarean sections."
"The program, which helps low-income families pay for the child care, would lose about $49 million as part of the budget-cutting measures proposed by Gov. Christine Gregoire. Her initial proposal was to chop $88.5 million from the $300 million program..."
"More Florida high-school students than ever are taking Advanced Placement classes and doing well on the exams, putting the state at the top of the national pack when it comes to preparing students for the rigors of college, according to a national report released this morning."
"Wisconsin Shares, which subsidizes centers with public funds for low-income children, has been under scrutiny recently following the suspension of payments to nearly 150 providers investigated for fraud."
"The racial differences are an example of the academic achievement gap that also has white students scoring better on state standardized tests and graduating at higher rates than minority students..."
"'We're hopeful that the school district will take this seriously,' said Megan Beaman Carlson, an attorney with Coachella-based California Rural Legal Assistance, a nonprofit group that provides free legal services to low-income residents."
"Sacramento County is failing to distribute state and federal money to child care centers that handle low-income kids, officials acknowledged Wednesday."
"Gets pretty crowded in there, especially if the kids gather around. But ever since the family found itself homeless because of cut-off utilities, she and her husband have tried to keep life as normal as possible for their three daughters, ages 11, 8 and 5."
"Some also face a different dilemma: trying to meet demand from low-income Latino Catholics who are unable to afford tuition. Last year alone, some 162 cash-strapped Catholic schools closed."
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