Child agency defends how money spent
First Things First was created out of the passion of residents alarmed over the state’s high child-poverty rates. Lawmakers last week voted to place a measure on November’s ballot to shut down the agency and redirect the tax money into the state’s general fund.
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Canadian Prime Minister says he’s open to including contraception in G8 plan for improving maternal, child health
“Facing a squall of condemnation from aid groups and opposition politicians,” following statements by Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon that Canada’s G8 maternal and child health initiative would not include family planning, Prime Minister Stephen Harper “disavowed his foreign [...]
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Failing eyesight finally led Cunningham to undergo more surgery as an adult. Legally blind in one eye, and with astigmatism in both eyes, she really needed …
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Child has died of flu, health department says
OXFORD – A Lafayette County child has died of influenza, the state Department of Health reported Friday. The child tested positive for Influenza A and had underlying health conditions. It has been classified as a pediatric death because the child was under age 18.
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Child support agency looks to go paperless
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginias child support enforcement agency plans to use a $5 million federal stimulus grant to make its operation more efficient by ditching the paperwork. The Bureau for Child Support Enforcement began scanning documents in …
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W.Va. child support agency looks to go paperless
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginias child support enforcement agency plans to use a $5 million federal stimulus grant to make its operation more efficient by ditching the paperwork. The Bureau for Child Support Enforcement began scanning documents in…
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Child care centres can reduce stress and child abuse: Rosmah
KUALA LUMPUR : Employers should consider setting up child care centres at work places to help reduce stress at work, especially among working mothers, said the Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
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No Child Left Behind: Obama overhaul takes flak from both parties
Education Secretary Arne Duncan took the Obama administration’s plans for No Child Left Behind to Capitol Hill Wednesday. Lawmakers were pleased but also had tough questions.
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The `Child Health Now — Together we can end Preventable Deaths' report pointed out that 30 high burden countries including India were spending less than $8 …
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