Voices for Utah Children Articles
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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?
- Category: Updates & Blog
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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
- Category: Updates & Blog
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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
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How Will The Coronavirus Impact Immigrants In Our State?
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our communities in so many ways. Unfortunately, for many immigrant families this has disproportionately created more obstacles in their lives. Mixed-status and undocumented immigrants were largely left out of the...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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How Will the Coronavirus Recession Impact Utah?
HOW WILL THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AFFECT UTAH’S ECONOMY? HOW WILL RECENT FEDERAL ACTIONS HELP? WHAT DOES UTAH NEED TO DO NEXT? As Americans hunker down in their homes to avoid catching the coronavirus, and as Governors across the nation ban...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices for Utah Children Statement: COVID-19 and How the State Of Utah Should Protect Families
On March 11, 2020, Governor Gary Herbert took the necessary step of declaring a state of emergency in Utah in order to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As the state moves forward with immediate activity to address the health implications of...
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- Author: Moe Hickey
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Let’s Keep All Families Covered: New Report Finds Number of Uninsured Latino Children in Utah on the Rise 2020 Utah Legislature Made Strides to Help All Children Stay Covered Decades of progress improving health coverage rates for Latino children has...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Utah Legislature Funds to Keep Kids Covered!
Voices for Utah Children celebrates the Legislature's support to Keep Utah Kids Covered and fund 12-month continuous eligibility for children on Medicaid, age 0-5. We want to express our gratitude and many thanks to Senator Luz Escamilla and to...
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- Author: Jessie Mandle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Three Things Utah Can Do to Ensure Right-Sized Access to Full-Day Kindergarten
Parents want it. Kids benefit from it. Educators believe in it. So why don't Utah families have more access to full-day kindergarten? Our new report, "Three Things Utah Can Do to Ensure Right-Sized Access to Full-Day Kindergarten," explores the...
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- Author: Anna Thomas
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Utah Tax Incidence History: 1995 - 2018
Utah Tax Incidence History 1995 - 2018 Utah is in the midst of the most intense debate over taxes that our state has seen in many years. In December the Legislature passed a major tax restructuring package following a year of public hearings and...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Legislature Passes Tax Package Including Revenue Losses, Grocery Tax (and Credit), EITC
Last night, December 12, 2019, the Utah Legislature passed a tax restructuring package in a special legislative session. Voices for Utah Children was very involved in this process over the course of the year. We attended the Tax Restructuring and...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Tax Restructuring Process Picks Up Speed -- October 28, 2019 Update
Tax Restructuring Process Picks Up Speed Last week (October 22, 2019) the Tax Restructuring and Equalization Task Force (TRETF) adopted its co-chairs’ proposal as its working document, passing a motion to produce draft legislation based on it for...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices for Utah Children Tax Reform Policy Positions September 2019 The mission of Voices for Utah Children is to make Utah a place where all children thrive. We start with one basic question: "Is it good for kids?" We believe that every child deserves...
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- Author: Matthew Weinstein
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Good News for Juvenile Justice Reformers, from the 2019 Legislative Session
Fans of juvenile justice reform have a lot to be happy about, with regards to the recently concluded legislative session. Thanks to the hard work of many committed elected officials, reform-minded public administrators and community-based advocates,...
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- Author: Anna Thomas
- Category: Updates & Blog
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2019 Utah Legislative Session Update
2019 Utah Legislative Session Update The 2019 Legislative session is in the books. The beginning of the Session was dominated by a disappointing rollback of voter-approved Prop 3, which will cover fewer families and create additional barriers to care....
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- Author: Terry Haven
- Category: Updates & Blog
