The U.S. House of Representatives has acted to require that day-care providers tell parents about their insurance status in order to receive federal grants.
Two large labor unions joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut at a press conference today in support of a proposal to add $200 million annually to a federal block grants program for child care.
Every year, Arkansans are passing up on about $280 million in state and federal benefits, Gov. Mike Beebe said Monday in announcing a $1.4 million pilot program aimed at helping low-income residents to receive all of the benefits for which they are eligible.
State officials have shifted $10 million in funding to provide child care vouchers to 2,000 children of parents working to get off of welfare.
The federal government wants back $1.18 million in money for poor families that Idaho spent on a poison control hot line and vaccination registry.
The federal government warned the state this week it faces a $10 million penalty for not moving enough welfare recipients into jobs and off public rolls in 2005.
April Gross is a not a statistic. She's not a label. She's a 25-year-old mother struggling for a better life.
In Colorado, 64 different rule books apply to child-care assistance for the state's working poor, each with its own eligibility standards, reimbursement rates and provider pay schedules.
A change to a state welfare reform program will require participants to work to continue receiving checks and has a local contractor scrambling to find open positions for the new workers.
Georgia has shifted federal welfare money away from programs meant to help recipients find jobs to child-protection programs and other areas, according to a recent report.