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|  | News Items Posted On: March 3, 2006
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U.S. Plan to Eliminate Survey of Needy Families Draws Fire
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, March 03 @ 11:36:48 EST by emohan
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Researchers and legislators are rallying to block a Bush administration plan to scupper a U.S. survey widely used to improve federal and state programs for millions of low-income and retired Americans.
President George W. Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2007, which begins this October, includes a Commerce Department plan to eliminate the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
The proposal marks at least the third White House attempt in as many years to do away with federal data collection on politically prickly economic issues ranging from mass layoffs to employment discrimination.
By mid-day Wednesday, some 415 liberal and conservative economists and social scientists had signed a letter to be sent to Congress Thursday urging that the survey be fully funded because it ''is the only large-scale survey explicitly designed to analyze the impact of a wide variety of government programs on the well being of American families.''
A group of Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives reportedly are leading a drive to get lawmakers to sign a similar letter defending the survey to be sent to the White House.
Full text available at Yahoo News
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NJ - Child-raising study ranks 3 southern counties lowest in state
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, March 03 @ 11:18:48 EST by emohan
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Cumberland County may be the worst county in which to raise a child in New Jersey, according to a study released Wednesday.
Cumberland ranked last overall among the state's 21 counties in the Association for Children of New Jersey study, which measured 13 key indicators, ranging from standardized testing to infant mortality and teenage mothers.
Salem, Atlantic and Cape May counties ranked 18th, 19th, and 20th, respectively, while Hunterdon County ranked first.
“While these southern counties do have some small cities, a lot of the poverty that infects child well-being is found in the rural parts of the state — a fact that state and local policymakers must consider when deciding how to improve conditions for all New Jersey children,” said Cecilia Zalkind, ACNJ's executive director.
While the study surprised some in northern New Jersey, Cumberland County residents are quite familiar with the poverty found throughout their area. The county is the state's poorest and one of the most crime-ridden.
However, there are signs of hope.
Cumberland County had the highest percentage of children enrolled in state-approved preschool programs, thanks to state-funded programs in Vineland, Millville and Bridgeton. Cape May and Atlantic counties ranked in the top half in the category. A recent state study found children in such early-childhood programs perform better in school, according to Bonnie Eggenberg, who runs the Head Start program for the Tri-County Community Action Partnership in Bridgeton.
Full text available at The Press of Atlantic City
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FL - Money to meet the rising needs of working poor for childcare is essential
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, March 03 @ 11:07:27 EST by emohan
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Brevard School District officials deserve credit for quickly cobbling together at least a partial solution to a potentially dangerous local gap in child care.
They agreed Tuesday to pay for before-school and after-school care for 400 kids set to be cut Wednesday from publicly funded programs -- at least through the end of the school year.
Despite a steady increase in the numbers of working families needing child care help, funding from federal, state and local sources has not increased in three years.
That left the Early Learning Coalition of Brevard, which oversees the money, with no option but to cut all but 320 children from the program to avoid a $2 million deficit.
1,000 children still are without funding for care at local churches, day-care centers and other facilities
Full text available at Florida Today
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MD - Childcare Legislation Supported By Prince George's County Delegation
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, March 03 @ 10:53:23 EST by emohan
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A bill introduced in the General Assembly Feb. 10, 2006, would allow family childcare providers to work with provider organizations to improve family childcare services statewide and provide an expanded tax break for some families.
"One of the largest problems for Maryland workers is having access to affordable and quality childcare," said Sean Carr, a spokesperson for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500.
Worked on by SEIU staff for over a year, the Quality childcare Access and Affordability Act would allow family childcare providers to participate in activities of the provider organizations of their choosing to be represented in decisions regarding regulation, rates of reimbursements and working conditions in the area of family childcare.
In addition to granting individual childcare providers more power within their field in Maryland, the Quality Child Care Access and Affordability Act would alter the state income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
Families with annual incomes up to $30,000 that have two children in some type of care could benefit from a maximum increase in their current tax credit of $526 to $1,216, while families making $50,000 per year with two children in care could have a maximum credit increase of $38 to $420, according to the SEIU Local 500.
Full text available at The Sentinel
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