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Scant attention paid to children’s issues in campaign

Child poverty, education gaps and health care challenges are barely on the radar screen for Republican candidates By Summit Voice With 11 months until Election Day 2012, presidential candidates are spending far less time addressing issues facing America’s children than other key issues, according to a new report released this week. According to the report, [...]

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Campaign Current 1-14-2012

Promise 1 Causes of stillbirths can be found, Utah doctors research shows (Salt Lake Tribune) …dred parents consented to complete postmortem exams, which included maternal interviews, reviews of prenatal medical records, autopsies, placental evaluations, karyotyping to check for chromosomal abn.. Grant money helps teach children healthy habits (Central Florida News 13) …w that when you identify the needs of [...]

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Fed probe validates Dozier abuse claims

TALLAHASSEE, FL (wfsu) – The Infamous Dozier School for Boys in Northwest Florida is now closed. But, before it shut down, state investigators said they found no basis for the rumors of child abuse that had surrounded the school for decades. Three years after that probe, the U.S. Justice Department found something different. The feds [...]

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Scott Trims Government to Fund Schools

Governor Rick Scott today proposed spending about one hundred dollars a year more per student and paying for it by closing prisons and slicing benefits for medicaid recipients. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, even with the additional school funding, schools will still have less than before Rick Scott took office. Governor Rick Scott says he [...]

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Campaign Current 1-5-2012

Promise 1 Local expert weighs in (Tampabay.com) … mother by child welfare officials, in part, because of his obesity hit home. … In Florida, the Department of Children and Families has stepped in when … Bedtime science for kids (Salt Lake Tribune) Cindy Stark and husband Tom Gabardi were relieved to find their first child, [...]

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Campaign Current 9-26-2011

Welcome to the Children’s Campaign Current, a weekly review of top news stories about children’s issues across the state. Promise 1 – Children’s Health Good deeds (Sarasota Herald Tribune) …Foundation to purchase children’s therapy toys and new furniture for the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health programs. The money will help children ages 2 to [...]

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Campaign Current 6-27-2011

Promise 1 – Children’s Health Medicaid cuts leave patients’ care in limbo (Ocala Star-Banner) Karen D’Ovidio is a self-taught expert on the symptomatology. Her son, Kevin Shaner, is among the estimated 20,000 Americans currently diagnosed with the genetic disorder.D’Ovidio has spent 27 years s… Film highlights black infant mortality issues (Daytona Beach News Journal) …orgese [...]

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