Voices for Utah Children Articles

  • The wait is over!

    Spread the word: lawfully residing immigrant kids can enroll in CHIP and Medicaid now! As of July 1st, 2016, new legislation takes effect that eliminates the previously mandated 5-year waiting period before lawfully-residing immigrant children in Utah...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Terry Haven Celebrates Two Decades of Work with Voices for Utah Children

    Today is my 20th anniversary with Voices for Utah Children. A lot has happened over the last 20 years and I would like to take this opportunity to share some of my thoughts. To begin with, when I first started with Voices for Utah Children it was just...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Terry Haven
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Shared Services Alliance for Pre-K

    Voices for Utah Children is excited to be involved in several innovative new developments in early childhood education here in Utah. In April, Voices received a second 3-year grant from the Kellogg foundation, which will enable us to continue enhancing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sara Gunderson
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • State Estate Taxes: A Key Tool for Broad Prosperity

    The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new report, State Estate Taxes: A Key Tool for Broad Prosperity. The report makes the following recommendation: As the income gap between the wealthiest Americans and those at the bottom and...

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    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Comparative Look at Utah and Colorado: Economic Opportunity

    The goal of the Working Families Benchmarking Project is to identify a variety of economic trends affecting working families across Utah, and then to examine those issues through a comparative lens, evaluating Utah’s overall progress by using a peer...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Weinstein
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Racial and Ethnic Equity for Children in Utah

    What We Learned from the 2016 Legislative Session Children of color in Utah face more poverty compared to non-Hispanic White children. As Utah becomes a more diverse state, children are affected by significant racial and ethnic disparities. The 2016...

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    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Mass Incarceration of Parents Hurts Kids

    The latest Annie E. Casey Foundation report, A Shared Sentence: the devastating toll of parental incarceration on kids, families and communities, states that “the most powerful step, by far” to protect the children of parents in the justice system “is...

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    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • U.S.A. reaches goal of 95% health insurance coverage for children but Utah lags behind

    In 2007, on the 10th anniversary of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and its partners committed to helping ensure that 95% of the nation’s children ages 0 to 18 had health insurance. This year the...

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    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Utah kid explains Voices for Utah Children victories for kids #loveUTgiveUT

    Love UT Give UT is Thursday, March 31 and we need your help! Donate Now Public policies affect children—but children don’t vote. At Voices for Utah Children, we raise our voices on behalf of children, informing policymakers that government can and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • The Magnificent Seven Children’s Health Issues in the 2016 Legislative Session

    Last year, we brought you a version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly for our legislative overview. For this year’s health policy round-up, we’re relying on another classic Western, The Magnificent Seven, to review the seven main children’s health...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Terry Haven
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Help us keep protecting children's health with #loveUTgiveUT

    March 31, 2016 is Love UT Give UT! It’s a day for Utahns to give to the nonprofits that make Utah special. Every donation to Voices for Utah Children through Love UT Give UT gives Voices a chance to win matching grants and prizes. And you don't have to...

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    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Tale of Two Utahs: How do Urban and Rural Utah Measure Up?

    It is widely agreed that rural communities have a different set of issues than more urban communities. While all low-income families, regardless of where they live, need connections to support programs and access to economic opportunities, strategies...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Terry Haven
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • 2016 Utah Legislative Session

    The 2016 Utah Legislative Session is underway January 25-March 10. Learn more about issues affecting children that will be addressed during this session: Tax and Budget Issues Creating a State Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) End the Earmarks Restoring...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Terry Haven
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Explaining Utah’s Gender Gap in Wages

    Utah’s Gender Opportunity In January 2015, Voices for Utah Children released Utah's Gender Opportunity: An examination of the difference between the earnings of Utah men and women. The report revealed that: Nationally, women earn $0.79 for every dollar...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Weinstein
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • The Earned Income Tax Credit: A Time-Tested Two-Generation Strategy for Poverty

    The Earned Income Tax Credit is a federal tax credit for low- and moderate income families that encourages and rewards work. The credit was created in 1975 under President Ford. Because of its remarkable ability to reduce poverty and promote family...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Weinstein
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • The 2015 Children's Budget Report: Adding Up Our Commitment to Kids

    Why a “Children’s Budget”? Children, it is often said, are Utah’s most precious resource. They represent the workforce, consumers, and leaders of tomorrow. For that reason, the investments we make in our children today have enormous economic and social...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Weinstein
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Comparison of Utah’s Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Children and Families

    For 30 years, Voices for Utah Children has been working on issues facing children in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, economic stability, education and health. We have become increasingly concerned about racial disparities in all these...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Terry Haven
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Utah Cares: fewer services to fewer people, greater cost than Healthy Utah

    A new report by Notalys, LLC, compares two options for expanding health care coverage to close the insurance gap for an estimated 66,000 Utahns who do not earn enough to receive federal subsidies for insurance but don’t qualify for traditional...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Questions?
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • Utah Parents and Families Would Benefit from Medicaid Expansion

    A joint report by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Voices for Utah Children finds that: In Utah, uninsured parents account for over one third of the population potentially eligible for health coverage if the state expands Medicaid....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sara Gunderson
    • Category: Updates & Blog

  • A Federal Balanced Budget Amendment Would Result in Funding Cuts for Children's Programs

    HJR7 is a resolution under consideration by the Utah Legislature that would call for a federal Constitutional Convention to consider a balanced budget amendment. It may sound like it's simply sending a message about Utah's support for dealing with the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Weinstein
    • Category: Updates & Blog
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