Voices for Utah Children

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.

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…

A Utah lawmaker has proposed a bill that would restrict legal immigrant children from accessing health care through Medicaid and CHIP.Republican state…

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…

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…

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…

The group Voices for Utah children released a study this week that shows how Governor Gary Herbert’s Medicaid expansion plan could help working…

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…

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.…

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…

A new report shows Utah’s children are not doing as well as they used to compared to the rest of the country. The annual Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids…

An independent analysis finds Utah’s Medicaid program is using state resources efficiently. The findings were released this week by Voices for Utah…