Minn.’s health care safety net expands for thousands of kids, By Jennifer Brooks, July 27, 2012, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “The state of Minnesota is expanding health care coverage to thousands of uninsured children. The new initiative, first approved by the Legislature in 2009 and finally implemented this month, will erase barriers such as waiting periods and monthly insurance premium payments for some 16,000 children from lower-income families across the state. Gloria Agbator wept when she heard the news. A single working mother, Agbator has health insurance for herself through her job, but she cannot afford the monthly premiums needed to include her three children on the plan…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty