- One in four UK children will be living in poverty by 2020, says thinktank, By Randeep Ramesh, May 7, 2013, The Guardian: “One in four children in Britain – 3.4 million – will be in relative poverty by 2020, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned. In a report, conducted for the Northern Ireland executive but held to describe the position in the UK as a whole, the IFS says ‘tax and benefit reforms introduced since April 2010 can account for almost all of the increases in child poverty projected over the next few years’…”
- 1.1m children forecast to fall back into poverty – wiping out a decade of gains, By John Bingham, May 7, 2013, The Telegraph: “The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) revised its previous estimates to forecast that 3.4 million British children will be living in households classed as in poverty by the end of a decade dominated by recession. The new projection, contained in an analysis commissioned by the devolved Northern Ireland Executive, means that the number of children in poverty is set to increase by 1.1 million this decade, instead of 800,000 as previously thought. It would take the UK back to the child poverty levels last seen at the turn of the century when the then Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a plan to ‘eradicate’ it…”
Day: May 10, 2013
Foster Care Reforms – Florida
Nation is watching Florida’s new foster-care reforms, By Kate Santich, May 9, 2013, Orlando Sentinel: “For thousands of foster kids across Florida, life is about to become a little more ‘normal.’ Under newly passed laws being watched by much of the nation, children growing up in the state’s care will soon be allowed to play sports, sleep over at a friend’s house, go to a movie or do any of the things other children do without their caretakers having to pursue background checks and court orders. Also, instead of having to leave foster care on their 18th birthdays, they’ll have the option of staying until age 21 as long as they’re going to school, working or getting job training…”
States and Medicaid Expansion
- Medicaid health insurance to expand under Obamacare in Kentucky, By Jessie Halladay, May 10, 2013, Louisville Courier-Journal: “More than 300,000 uninsured Kentuckians will become eligible for Medicaid after Gov. Steve Beshear announced Thursday that the state will expand the health insurance program — taking advantage of President Barack Obama’s controversial Affordable Care Act…”
- Mich. House GOP presents plan to expand Medicaid, By Chad Livengood, May 9, 2013, Detroit News: “A House Republican proposal to expand the income eligibility limit for Medicaid health insurance for the poor emerged Thursday after months of debate over Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan to add more than 400,000 Michiganians to the program. But the plan is far different than the across-the-board expansion of the existing program that the Republican governor requested, and it’s predicated on federal approval of major changes to the Medicaid program in Michigan…”
- How some rural areas are being pinched by lack of Medicaid expansion, By Blake Farmer, May 9, 2013, Marketplace: “An expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act is supposed to cover more of the working poor and balance out cuts that were made to already-struggling hospitals. But Republican-led states have been opting out or at least holding out, and outlying areas in states like Tennessee may be the hardest hit…”