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Educating foster youth is critical to their — and our — future
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20.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| Foster youth are at higher risk of poor academic achievement, including higher dropout rates and truancy, than their peers who are from stable, permanent families. While post-secondary education is a given for many Minnesota children, it may seem like only a dream to young adults in the foster care system. The work of the Children’s Justice Initiative, a statewide collaborative between the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Judicial Branch, is working to make that dream a reality by ensuring appropriate secondary education planning for youth.
Justice Lorie S. Gildea
One youth, whom we will call Sarah, was in and out of the foster care system since she was six months old. Yet Sarah persevered, despite the odds stacked against her. She gained admission to college, earned a music scholarship, worked at a grocery store, and with a little help from the state along the way, graduated. We want to help more foster youth like her.
While our goal has always been and will ... |
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Editorial Board: Obamacare’s tricky next phase
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20.5.2013 |
Washington Post |
| THOUGHT YOU HAD seen the last of the fighting over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare? Since its passage in 2010, after all, it has survived Supreme Court review, innumerable challenges from House Republicans and Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful campaign to evict its author from the White House. ... |
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US Senate to take up farm bill
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19.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Politics |
The U.S. Senate will take up the farm bill this week. That legislation sends at least a billion dollars a year to Minnesota in the form of crop subsidies and food stamps and conservation programs. |
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Approaching bipartisan solutions for nation’s housing woes
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18.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Opinion |
| Little has been done to revamp America’s housing-finance policy since rampant speculation and malleable regulations triggered the Great Recession. Now, writes Neal Peirce, a bipartisan commission has a plan to tackle this important issue. |
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PoliGraph: Bachmann health premium claim leaves out key details
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18.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Politics |
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for the 37th time to undo the new healthcare law - a bill sponsored by Sixth Congressional District Rep. Michele Bachmann. But the vote was largely symbolic; the Senate has no plans to pass the bill. |
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Donald Carr: Tea For Me, Not For You
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17.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By virtually eliminating risk, crop insurance subsidies are encouraging farmers to plow up wetlands and prairies, a trend that is increasing water pollution, releasing more carbon into the atmosphere and destroying wildlife habitat. |
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Why did GOP try repealing 'Obamacare' again?
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17.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| WASHINGTON — The House passed a repeal of the Affordable Care Act on Thursday night, at once a crowning achievement for House conservatives like Michele Bachmann, who sponsored the bill, and somewhat of an afterthought in a week that saw GOP attention turn sharply elsewhere.
Affordable Care Act opponents wielded a new argument against the law this time around: that after the Internal Revenue Service admitted to singling out applications from conservative groups for extra scrutiny, it would be folly to give the IRS additional power (the bureau is charged with issuing health care subsidies and imposing penalties under the law).
It was indicative of the way this week went in Washington — House Republicans would normally have waged a PR campaign based around their vote to repeal “Obamacare.” Instead, they made headlines pursuing the triple controversies of the IRS, an investigation into the Associated Press and their Benghazi inquiry. In fact, when Republicans did bring up the ACA, they were often ... |
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House advances student loan fix
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17.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: News |
The days of fixed-rate student loans could be coming to a close, with House Republicans on Thursday advancing a proposal that would link rates to financial markets. |
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House Republicans Take Another Stab At Repealing Obamacare
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17.5.2013 |
NPR: All Things Considered |
| The House held a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act — again. This time it was to make freshman Republicans happy by giving them a vote to take home. |
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ONE MORE TIME: House Votes Again To Repeal Obamacare
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17.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, knowing full well... |
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U.S sets health, safety standards for child care
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17.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| WASHINGTON -- After a growing number of high-profile media reports of children who have died or been injured in child care, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday, May 16, that it will for the first time impose tough national health and safety standards for all child care facilities that accept government subsidies. |
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House Republicans Vote (Again) To Defund Obamacare
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17.5.2013 |
NPR News |
| For the 37th time, GOP lawmakers in the House have cast a symbolic vote to defund the Affordable Care Act. |
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House passes Bachmann's 'Obamacare' repeal bill
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17.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| The U.S. House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday night, its 37th vote to defund or dismantle the law, or portions of it, since Republicans took control of the House in 2011.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann sponsored the legislation this time around, the first time one of her ACA (“Obamacare”) repeal bills has seen floor action, though she has co-sponsored several others. Her argument against the law had a new angle to it this week: In the wake of the Internal Revenue Service’s admission that it had targeted conservative political groups’ tax-exempt status applications, the American people shouldn’t give the agency more power, she said (the IRS issues health care subsidies and assesses penalties under the law).
“Could there potentially be political implications regarding health care — access to health care, denial of health care — will that happen based upon a person’s political beliefs or their religiously-held beliefs?” she said at a press conference Thursday morning . “These ... |
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House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again
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17.5.2013 |
LA Times: Top News |
| House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again |
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North Minneapolis housing development aims to be family-friendly, transit-savvy
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17.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Business |
| CommonBond’s development, called West Broadway Crescent, aims to be transit-savvy. |
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Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid
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17.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it. ... |
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Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid
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17.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Politics |
| The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it. |
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House advances student loan fix
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16.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The days of fixed-rate student loans could be coming to a close, with House Republicans on Thursday advancing a proposal that would link rates to financial markets. |
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House advances student loan fix
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16.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| House advances student loan fix |
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HHS announces first federal health and safety standards for child care
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16.5.2013 |
Washington Post |
| After a growing number of high-profile media reports of children who have died or been injured in child care, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday morning that it will for the first time impose tough national health and safety standards for all child-care facilities that accept government subsidies. ... |
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