The Affordable Care Act (the new health care law) has already helped millions of people.
Read MoreThis Data Snapshot highlights newly available national, state, and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25 percent increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000.
Read MoreMillions of hardworking Americans will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to fully renew the program before it expires at the end of February.
Read MoreVoices is working in coalition with Hunger Free Vermont to craft common recommendations that seek to protect and improve the farm bill nutrition programs.
Read MoreThe Burlington and Winooski school districts have won a three-year grant of about $3.5 million designed to help customize the high school experience and allow more young people to succeed in college or the workplace.
Read MoreThe long awaited report on Vermont’s Education Financing system, the so-called Picus Report, was published in its final form on January 18th and the two main authors, Lawrence Picus and Allan Odden, made a tour of various legislative committees the week before, in preparation for its release. In general, the report is very positive.
Read MoreOn Thursday,January 12th, the Senate gave final approval to S.92, a bill that requires manufacturers and distributors of cleaning products to only sell environmentally preferable cleaning products to schools.
Read MoreMillions of hardworking Americans—nearly 2 million in January alone, and over 6 million in 2012—will be cut off from the emergency lifeline of federal unemployment insurance, unless Congress acts to renew the program before it expires December 31st.
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Read MoreNew Census data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) show that the impacts of the recession are taking their toll on Vermont’s children and their families.
Read MoreToday, policy makers, attorneys, parents, juvenile justice programs and community groups called on Senator Leahy to ensure adequate federal funding for vital juvenile justice programs
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Read MoreGET TO YES IN A TIME OF NO: ORGANIZING OPPORTUNITES FOR VERMONT KIDS AND FAMILIES
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Read MoreBrattleboro Reformer writes about Kids Count Data for 2011
Read MoreMore budget cuts means shortchanging Vermont’s kids.
Read MoreVermont Public Radio covers the release of the 2009 American Community Survey, noting that the Vermonters hardest hit by the recession are young children.
Read MoreVermont’s future economic prosperity threatened by persistent child poverty
Read MoreThe Brattleboro Reformer covers the release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book.
Read MoreVermont ranks third nationally in overall child health and well-being in the 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the 21st annual state-by-state study on the well-being of America’s children, published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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