In 2010, 1,600 low-income women lost access to prenatal care through Medicaid, leaving them without the critical care that would help their baby be born as healthy as possible. With your help, we can restore this coverage through LB 599. Help make healthy babies a priority this session There are…...
Assets and Opportunity in Nebraska
Today, the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) released their comprehensive assesment of wealth, poverty, and financial security in the United States. CFED looks at how states, including Nebraska, are doing with regard to these measures. Nebraska ranked 17 overall. Nebraska continues to have low unemployment and a strong homeownership rate…...
Gaining perspective on the Governor’s Tax Cut
Cutting taxes limits Nebraska’s ability to fund important programs aimed at helping our children get the best possible start in life. To give us a little perspective, here are 10 policy changes that benefit kids from before birth through their teen years, sized relative to Governor Heineman’s proposed tax cuts.…...
Neutral Testimony on LB 961
Voices for Children is neutral on the proposal to return child welfare case management to the state. It doesn’t matter to a child who their caseworker works for and a change back would be yet another transfer their already unstable lives. January 26, 2012 From: Carolyn D. Rooker, Executive DirectorTo:…...