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Possible solutions include screening kids earlier for mental health concerns and tapping into underutilized Medicaid benefits.
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Student outcomes are a more important measure of a state’s public education system than its funding ranking. But the level of funding a state provides can be an important aid to student success.
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Incarcerated students in Utah currently have access to high school curriculums and can get their GED or diploma. A proposal by a state lawmaker would set up a program to help them earn college credits, too.
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The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, provides low-cost health coverage for around 20,000 kids in Utah each year. Senator Orrin Hatch helped…
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A Utah lawmaker has proposed a bill that would restrict legal immigrant children from accessing health care through Medicaid and CHIP.Republican state…
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KUER 90.1 is partnering with Voices for Utah Children and KUED to host a screening of Frontline's Second Chance Kids. This Frontline episode looks inside…
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At 11.3 %, poverty rates in Utah are down only slightly over the past year according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. It’s also still higher than…
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A new report shows that Utah is not making the same progress on children’s health insurance coverage or child death rates as other states. According to…
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The group Voices for Utah children released a study this week that shows how Governor Gary Herbert’s Medicaid expansion plan could help working…
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A new study shows that Utah women make 70 cents for every dollar that men make, the fourth largest wage gap in the country.The study looked not only at…
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Children in Utah are more likely to be living in poverty today than they were two decades ago. That’s according to new data released from the Annie E.…
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Utah has been awarded 5.4 million dollars from the federal government for its efforts to get more children covered by health insurance. The performance…