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2011
US Department of Education: Obama Administration Announces $500 Million for Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (5/25/11) Voices for America's Children: Statement: Bill Bentley, Voices for America's Children President and CEO, on Passage of Ryan Budget Blueprint (4/15/11) Center for American Progress: GOP Budget Slashes Pell Grants (4/8/11) The First Five Years Fund: Busting Myths About Head Start's Effectiveness (3/21/11) CNN Opinion: Cutting Head Start is Bad Fiscal Policy (3/19/11) HNR: Congress Likely to Approve Another Three Weeks of Federal Spending; House Approves Another $6 Billion in Cuts Below FY 2010 Levels; Senate Expected to Follow Suit (3/17/11) Children's Leadership Council: Millions of U.S. Children Would Be Harmed By Proposed House Continuing Resolution Budget Cuts (3/9/11)
2010
HNR: DREAM Denied for Immigrant Youth (12/22/10) Op-ed by Bruce Lesley and Wendy Cervantes of First Focus on Huffington Post: All Kids Deserve to DREAM (12/6/10) HNR: Congress Enacts Medicaid and Education Aid Urgently Needed by States (8/11/10) HNR: Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations; Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10) HNR: Senate Sends War Supplemental Back to House without Domestic Provisions (7/26/10) HNR: House and Senate Set FY 2011 Spending Targets Lower Than President’s; Spending Tight, but Some Growth in House Labor-HHS Appropriations (7/26/10) HNR: Efforts to Provide Needed Relief to Unemployed and States Falling Short in the Senate (6/18/10) HNR: Jobless Benefits Restored; Action on Long-Term Jobs Measures Pending (4/26/10) Rock Hill Herald: Push to Expand Child Tax Credits Aims at Youth Crime (4/8/10) Rock Hill Herald: South Carolina Law Enforcement Back Child Tax Credit to Cut Crime (4/7/10) HNR: Sweeping Changes in the Student Loan Program (3/29/10)
2007
HNR: Bill Increasing Pell Grants Awaits President's Signature (9/17/07) HNR: Senate Enacts Student Lending Bill With Public Service Loan Forgiveness (7/23/07)
2006
CDF: Protect Children, Not Guns (6/23/06) HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06) HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06) HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06)
2005
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05) WashPost: GOP Leaders Agree to $41.6 Billion Spending Cut (12/19/05) WashPost: Groups Set to Protest Student Loan Cuts (11/23/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) HNR: Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) WashPost: Republicans Cut Student Aid; Foster Care; Child Support and Other Programs (10/26/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) HNR: Higher Education Act Extension to Allow Time to Consider Reauthorization (9/30/05) HNR: Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) WashPost: Bush Proposes Vouchers for All Displaced Students (9/20/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) WashPost: Critical Votes on Budget Cuts Loom for Republicans (8/28/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) NYTimes: More Schools Get Less Money for Low-Income Students (7/5/05) HNR: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) HNR: House Cuts Juvenile Justice Programs; Rejects President's Cuts to Community Development (6/17/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) NYTimes: Financial Aid Rules Change; Families Pay More (6/6/05) NYTimes: School Law Spurs Efforts to End Minority Gap (5/27/05) NYTimes: Class Matters - The College Dropout Boom (5/24/05) HNR: Head Start Bill Moves in House - Without Block Grant (5/20/05) NYTimes: Those Who Outgrow Foster Care Still Struggle, Study Finds (5/19/05) Washington Times: House Panel OKs Head Start measure (5/19/05) HNR: Senate Subcommittee Looks at Early Childhood Programs (4/29/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) WP: As Teen Pregnancy Dropped, So Did Child Poverty (4/14/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05)
2004
NYTimes: Students to Bear More of the Cost of College (12/23/04) WP: Charter Students Fare No Better, Study Says (12/16/04) NYTimes: Crime in Schools Fell Sharply Over Decade, Survey Says (11/30/04) NYTimes Editorial: Undermining Pell Grants (11/25/04) HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) NYTimes: Parts of Special Ed Bill Would Shift More Power to States (11/22/04) NYTimes: Conferees Pass Compromise for 6.5 Million Special Education Pupils (11/18/04) HNR: Human Needs Legislation Stuck in Gridlock (9/17/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) NYTimes: Bouncing Among Shelters and Among City Schools (9/20/04) HNR: House Subcommittee Votes on Perkins Grants Reauthorization (7/16/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: Senate Reauthorizes Disability Education Bill (5/21/04) NY Times Editorial: The College Aid Crisis (5/25/04) HNR: Omnibus Appropriations Bill Moving Forward (11/21/03) => Back to Education and Youth Policy Main Page
