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By Chuan TengCities across the U.S. are making children’s health a local priority and taking an active role in enrolling kids and families in Medicaid and CHIP.Moms have gotten wind of NLC’s Cities Expanding Health Access for Children and Families initiative (CEHACF) and are telling mayors “thank…

Washington, DC -- Although child welfare spending has increased for at least a decade, several factors driven by the current recession may be converging to threaten states' capacity to serve abused and neglected children.A new Child Trends study, Federal, State, and Local Spending to Address…

In her long struggle to care for her gravely ill husband, journalist and Passages author Gail Sheehy recalls one defining moment. More than a year ago, her husband, publisher Clay Felker, was being discharged from a New York City rehabilitation facility after spending several months…

By Michael Booth It came sometime after the “You lie!” outburst and the false claims of “death panels,” but before two potentially fatal US Supreme Court decisions and sixty-seven consecutive votes to repeal in the US House of Representatives. In hindsight, President Obama’s signing of…

Washington — Advocates for children today hailed as a major victory for America’s children the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding in its entirety the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health reform law. First Focus released an analysis of the ACA’s critical provisions for children and celebrated the Court’s decision,…

This New York Times article features two Atlantic ageing programme grantees — Civic Ventures and the Rose Community Foundation. Both organisations engage older people in encore careers and volunteer positions that combine personal meaning and social impact to solve society’s greatest problems. The Rose Community Foundation received a re-grant…

AUSTIN – For over a decade now, Texas has been the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsured children, but today a grassroots start-up is launching with the promise to end the trend by instead “building a legacy of healthy children.”  With legislators weighing…

“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked.  We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” - Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…

by JANE ZHANG and VANESSA FUHRMANS Figuring out which Medicare drug-insurance plan is right for you is confusing enough. Now, complaints are mounting about an obscure drug-pricing system that can force many older Americans to pay stiff penalties when they opt for brand-name drugs instead…

New Mexico has the third-highest rate in the nation of children without medical insurance more than one in six, according to a new report by Families USA. Some 93,000 New Mexico children lack health insurance, according to the report, which is based on the Census…