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KIDSCOUNT Data Snapshot on Children Living in High-Poverty Communities
This 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. The snapshot indicates how…
Annie E. Casey FoundationVoices for America’s Children
A network of state and local child advocacy organizations
One Vermont
A coalition working to improve Vermonters’ lives by building strong public structures
Babies with low birth weight—under 5.5 pounds—are at risk of respiratory conditions, cognitive and developmental delays, and long-term conditions. In Vermont and nationwide, this problem has been increasing steadily. The Healthy Vermonters 2010 objective is to reduce the percentage to 5.0%. In 2007, the Vermont average was 6.2%.
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Action Alert: Immunization Bill Taken Up in Conference Committee
Published April 20, 2012The Immunization bill, S.199, is moving to a conference committee and your representatives need to hear from you!
S.199 as passed in the Senate removed the philosophical exemption to the requirement that all children entering public school or registered childcare centers…
Continue reading Action Alert: Immunization Bill Taken Up in Conference CommitteeVT Digger: Sanders holds town meeting on dental “crisis”
Published March 21, 2012On March 10, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders focused attention on a dental crisis in the United States during a town meeting at Montpelier High School, which was attended by approximately 200 people. Read more about the event in VT Digger’s…
Continue reading VT Digger: Sanders holds town meeting on dental “crisis”***National hearing on dental access being held today at 10am***
Published February 29, 2012Please join in on the dental access hearing being held in DC by VT Senator Sanders today from 10am-12pm via live stream. Senator Sanders is dedicated to bringing attention to the lack of access to dental care in the U.S…
Continue reading ***National hearing on dental access being held today at 10am***VT Digger Op Ed: Bringing dental care to health care reform table
Published February 14, 2012Learn more about how we can do better in access to dental care in this op ed by Sheila Reed from Voices and Gini Milkey from COVE.
Continue reading VT Digger Op Ed: Bringing dental care to health care reform tableLegislative Update 2012 – #1
Published January 31, 2012In this Issue
- Agency of Human Services Addresses Problems with Child Welfare System.
- Budget Adjustment bill passes House and heads for the Senate
- Vermont legislature passes school “green” cleaning bill
- Child Care Centers Request Emergency Help From the Legislature
- Public Hearing on FY2013 State Budget
This…
Continue reading Legislative Update 2012 – #1Spotlight on Vermont’s Education Financing System
Published January 26, 2012The 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…
Continue reading Spotlight on Vermont’s Education Financing SystemAsk Our Members of Congress To Renew Unemployment Insurance for 2012
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Please ask Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders and Representative Welch to Renew Unemployment Insurance for 2012
Millions of hardworking Americans—nearly 2 million in January alone, and over…