Senate Democrats wasted no time capitalizing on Tuesday's Medicare-fueled upset
in a New York special election, holding a vote on the GOP budget plan
Wednesday ...
In the national Race to the Top contest, Secretary Duncan announced that $500 million in grants have been given to programs for early education, and $200 million to ...
House Republicans are proposing a cut in
the WIC nutrition program that would force WIC to turn away 325,000 to 475,000
eligible low-income women and young children ...
This op-ed urges Congress to
reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
before the school year starts back up in the fall. It emphasizes that ESEA ...
Sen. Tom Coburn is writing his own budget, which he started before
leaving the "gang of six" talks on deficit reduction. Meanwhile, HHS
Sec. Sebelius is helping ...
Earlier this month, Rep. George Miller released
a report finding that 54 year olds would have to save an additional
$182,000 over the next decade to find private ...
House Republicans plan another vote on a bill to roll back a spending
provision of the health law. Plus some question whether Senate candidate
Tommy Thompson is out ...
Since the 1960s, the federal government has become increasingly
involved in K-12 education, altering the federal-state-local division of labor.
Yet, while we often ...
Future Majority reports on
unemployment and underemployment in the job market for young people, with statistics from Rutgers
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce ...
States are implementing some of the harshest cuts in recent history for many of the nation’s most vulnerable families with children who are receiving assistance ...
Forty-three education programs would be scrapped
under a bill introduced by Rep. Duncan Hunter, the chairman of the House
Education and the Workforce subcommittee ...
The Congressional Budget Office reported that a bill that would allow
governors to scale back their Medicaid rolls would save $2.8 billion
between 2012 and 2016 and ...
The Congressional Budget Office reported that a bill that would allow
governors to scale back their Medicaid rolls would save $2.8 billion
between 2012 and 2016 and ...
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers who focus on
children’s programs wonder why voters who say they care about the next
generation can be so reluctant ...
Want to know why immigrant families could help solve the
problems of an aging population? Of why politicians feel there’s little
percentage in courting young ...
The Coalition on Human Needs says House
appropriators have set about the work of divvying up the House Budget Resolution’s
cuts for next year among the dozen ...
In this Alliance for Children and
Families report Patrick Lester summarizes the fundamental divisions in
addressing the federal deficit in the future along with a ...
