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Behind-the-scenes of Kids Count in Nebraska

October 13, 2011 adminvoicesmain More from Voices

Though the Kids Count in Nebraska 2011 Report isn’t released until January, we here at Voices for Children are busy collecting, sorting, analyzing, charting and occasionally scratching our heads over all the data that we’ve received from our loyal data providers. Since it’s my day to blog, I thought I’d give…...

Step Up for Kids

October 10, 2011 adminvoicesmain More from Voices

Kids can’t vote or hold public office. That’s why it is important that we Step Up and let our elected officials know that we care about children and urge them to protect vital services that help them grow and learn....

47,000 Reasons to Move Forward on Health Care

October 6, 2011 adminvoicesmain Federal, Health

Earlier this week, Governor Heineman expressed his plans to wait to move forward on setting up a Health Care Exchange in Nebraska. Health Care Exchanges are one of the key features of the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in 2010. The exchange will be a new…...

New Report Highlights Costs of Incarcerating Kids

October 4, 2011 adminvoicesmain Safety

A large part of our Safety agenda here at Voices for Children in Nebraska focuses on how our state treats children who come into contact with our juvenile justice system. When the first juvenile courts were established in the United States over a hundred years ago, their purpose was to…...

Unnecessary Costs: Juvenile Incarceration in Nebraska

October 4, 2011 adminvoicesmain Safety

In light of the release of the No Place for Kids Report earlier today, we’re looking at some of the Nebraska-specific numbers. During the 2009-2010 state fiscal year (SFY), Nebraska spent over $17 million dollars on its two centers for juvenile incarceration – the youth residential treatment centers (YRTC) in…...

Poverty a matter of life and death

September 29, 2011 adminvoicesmain Economic Stability

Statistics, dry as they can be, can point to some hard truths when we really pay attention. Last week I wrote about the new Census numbers on child poverty, which indicate that about 1 in 5 Nebraska kids is poor. That translates to 82,000 children, or the entire populations of…...

Building a better child welfare system

September 28, 2011 adminvoicesmain Safety

Today the HHS committee of the legislature has a hearing on LR 37 in Omaha. Voices for Children has been invited to testify. We will have more remarks (Updated below) after the hearing, but for now, we wanted to share a “fact sheet” that goes along with our…...

How cuts to Medicaid impact a child’s health

September 26, 2011 adminvoicesmain Federal, Health, Infographics

Having access to health care is critical for the healthy development of children. However, in the last decade, we’ve seen a general trend in kids losing employer-sponsored health care, making Medicaid increasingly important for child health....

Poverty Data: What we can do about it

September 23, 2011 adminvoicesmain Economic Stability

As you might be able to tell from yesterday’s post on the new poverty data, we at Voices for Children were appalled by the new numbers. We put out a press release and a few people took notice, but in our biased (albeit highly researched) opinion, there should be…...

With more kids in poverty, it’s time for action

September 22, 2011 adminvoicesmain Economic Stability, Infographics

Holy smokes. Remember last week when we promised a more in-depth look at poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau? Well, today, those data were released, and the look we promised isn’t going to be a very happy one. While the Omaha World-Herald led with a story touting Nebraska’s income growth, the takeaway here…...

Behind-the-scenes of Kids Count in Nebraska

Step Up for Kids

47,000 Reasons to Move Forward on Health Care

New Report Highlights Costs of Incarcerating Kids

Unnecessary Costs: Juvenile Incarceration in Nebraska

Poverty a matter of life and death

Building a better child welfare system

How cuts to Medicaid impact a child’s health

Poverty Data: What we can do about it

With more kids in poverty, it’s time for action

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