Voices for Utah Children Articles
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Invest in Utah's Future, Not Tax Cuts
BROAD COALITION CALLS FOR INVESTMENT IN UTAH’S FUTURE, NOT TAX CUTS, DOCUMENTS $5.2 BILLION IN URGENT UNMET NEEDS Salt Lake City – On Monday, November 8, 2021 on the steps of the Utah Capitol, a broad and diverse coalition of advocates for the poor,...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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New Report on the Important Role of School-Based Health Services Across Utah!
School Health Services Overview: Promoting Student Health, Wellness and Success Schools play a vital role in helping children and families stay healthy. Over the past year, Utah schools experienced a heightened focus on their role in promoting student...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Why is Utah Restricting Medicaid Benefits for Parents? Your Comments are (Still) Needed!
Let's Change this Discriminatory Policy! In 2002, long before the Affordable Care Act, Utah decided to offer limited health benefits to low-income adults, who otherwise could not get health insurance. To help pay for these benefits, the state made the...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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NEW BRIEF: The Future of Full-Day Kindergarten in Utah
More than 18 months ago - right before the pandemic started to truly rock our world - we released "Three Things Utah Can Do to Ensure Right-Sized Access to Full-Day Kindergarten," a wide-ranging report on the status of full-day kindergarten (FDK)...
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- Author: Anna Thomas
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NEW REPORT: Covering Uninsured Kids Will Save Utah Millions Every Year
Utah has 82,000 uninsured children, according to the most recent Census data, which means an estimated 8.3% of children in Utah do not have health insurance. Utah currently ranks 46th in the nation for insured children. When it comes to addressing this...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Good News and Bad News for Utah in New Census Report on State Education Investment
On May 18, 2021, as it always does around this time of year, the US Census Bureau released its Annual Survey of School System Finances. This report is the authoritative source of state education finance data and rankings, including the one we are all...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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The 2021 Utah Legislative Session: Was It Good For Kids?
We appreciate the many legislators that supported bills affecting children. In summary, it WAS a good year for kids, but we still have plenty to do and we look forward to working together to #investinutahkids! Early Childhood Early childhood care and...
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- Author: Sara Gunderson
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Legislative leaders have said that 2021 should be “the year of the tax cut.” Numerous public opinion surveys show that Utahns disagree. This may come as a surprise to policymakers, who have been in the habit of handing out tax break after tax break for...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Coverage for All Utah Kids: A Look at the Benefits and Estimated Costs
When kids have health insurance, they experience many short and long-term benefits: better health outcomes, improvements in their educational achievements-- even higher wages in in adulthood. We know from a significant body of research that kids do...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Should 2021 Be "The Year of the Tax Cut"?
Snow on the mountains, inversions in the valleys, and talk of tax cuts at the Capitol: It must be January in Utah. Reports are accumulating that the state’s political leaders are looking to make 2021 “the year of the tax cut.” But, as always with...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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#InvestInUtahKids: An Agenda for Utah's New Governor and Legislature
Salt Lake City - Voices for Utah Children released publicly today (January 6, 2021) "#InvestInUtahKids: An Agenda for Utah's New Governor and Legislature," the first major publication of our new #InvestInUtahKids initiative. Utah begins a new era in...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Top Five Ways to Invest in Early Childhood
“The way we [invest in Utah] is by focusing on our kids, giving them the best opportunities, the best resources at the earliest possible time...to help them to live better, happier and less trauma-filled lives, while also saving taxpayer money by...
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- Author: Anna Thomas
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Children's Mental Health During COVID-19: What have we learned, where do we go from here?
“It feels like we’re in a game of battle ship… and we’re the ships” Recently, Voices for Utah Children hosted a virtual panel discussion on children’s mental health during COVID-19. Our panel of experts came from the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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As Utahns return their ballots and engage with candidates, we want to make sure all Utahns are informed and understand where our future elected officials stand on issues central to Utah kids and families. Here are some questions we are asking- and will...
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- Author: Questions?
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New Data Finds Number of Utah Uninsured Children Increasing at Alarming Rate
Analysis shows 39% increase in the number of uninsured Utah children between 2016 and 2019 An estimated 82,000 Utah children were uninsured last year, a number that has increased by 39 percent since 2016, according to a new report released by the...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices for Utah Children announces opposition to Constitutional Amendment G
(view this as a pdf here) The state's leading child research and advocacy organization Voices for Utah Children announced its opposition to Constitutional Amendment G in an online press conference today (Monday, October 5, 2020). Constitutional...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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More Utah Children Lost Health Insurance in 2019, According to Latest National Survey Last week, the Census Bureau released its annual health insurance data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The alarming top line news is that children’s health...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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LEFT OUT: Adding Up the Cost of Excluding Undocumented Utahns from State and Federal COVID-19 Relief
Voices for Utah Children and Comunidades Unidas Release New Report: "LEFT OUT: Adding Up the Cost of Excluding Undocumented Utahns from State and Federal COVID-19 Relief" Salt Lake City - This morning, July 28, 2020, two Utah nonprofit organizations,...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Childhood Obesity, Social Determinants and COVID-19
Part 2 in a series on Utah's new KIDS COUNT childhood obesity indicator In the context of COVID-19, it is especially critical to highlight the underlying structural and systemic indicators behind Utah’s childhood obesity rates. The COVID-19 crisis has...
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- Author: Terry Haven
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It’s Time for the Child-Centered Child Care System that Utah Families Deserve
For too many years, child are policy – in Utah and nationally – has been shaped primarily by economic and political forces. These forces have shaped our perceptions of early care and education: “People need childcare because they should be working....
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- Author: Anna Thomas
- Category: Updates & Blog
