Sunday, January 30, 2011

Voices for Georgia's Children blog posts...

This week's posts include: 

1/29: Childhood memory: Picking parsley with grandpa. Why we need to teach our children positive food habits. Whenever I eat fresh parsley I’m immediately transported back in time to my nanny and grandpa’s mint green kitchen...

1/28: Right Now: 57% of Georgia’s kids are eligible for free and reduced lunches. Today I heard that more than 57% of Georgia’s kids are eligible for free and reduced lunches in public schools. According to statistics on the StateMaster website, Georgia places fifth in the nation in number of eligible kids...

1/28: Losing $2.9 Million from Children 1st is a Bad Idea. The Department of Community Health’s program, Children 1st, screens all newborns and children up to age 5 to identify those who are at risk for poor health and developmental outcomes...

1/28: Cutting Medicaid Hurts Kids – Especially Now! As advocates for children and families in Georgia, we are concerned about recent attempts within states to scale back vital health care programs for our most vulnerable citizens...

1/27: Business Lesson for State Government: Child Care. Why did three Georgia companies merit placement on Fortune magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For?  Because they support child care for their employees, including summer camps in some cases...

1/27: Where do you start to explain the dilemma our kids face? Looking at the fact that about one child out of five in Georgia lives at or below the poverty level, and that more than a third of Georgia’s kids live in a family where no parent has full-time, year-round employment, where do you start to explain the dilemma our kids face?

1/24: Federal Budget Proposals and Georgia’s Kids. Overall, Georgia House and Senate committees are just getting warmed up, having organizational meetings and starting to examine agency budgets in a little more detail than perhaps they did last week during the FY11/FY12 budget hearings...

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