All posts tagged "Congress/Federal Policy"

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Strategy Worked for Seniors, Can It Work For Kids?

  Before the Older Americans Act in 1965, there was no Medicare, no meals-on-wheels, no multi-purpose senior centers – all now part of...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  No CHIPs Off the Uninsured Kids Block

  Several new reports on changes in public and private health insurance have put a frown on the faces of those striving to...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Do Kids Count in Congress?

  By Sue Badeau Members of Congress want us to believe that children are a very high priority. So day after day they...

• News

  Anti-Huffing Programs Work, Then Get Cut

  By Amy Bracken It’s the third most popular drug in middle school and it can kill on first use. Yet parents and...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Supreme Court Strips FDA Youth Tobacco Regs

  In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....

• ► Newsmakers

  Rose Garden Baby

  Remember that Rose Garden 501(c)(3) baby delivered suddenly by Bill and Hillary Clinton last May? Not too many people, even in the...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Promises, Promises …

  By Sue Badeau President Clinton released his eighth and final budget proposal last month, laying out a plan that would shape America’s...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Gun-loaded Juvenile Crime Bill a No-Show

  The House and Senate juvenile justice legislation, passed with so much fanfare in late summer, didn’t make final cut during the first...