BruceLesley

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Proud father of 4. Child advocate. President of First Focus on Children & First Focus Campaign for Children. Basketball fanatic. #InvestInKids #VoteKids
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My blog on how the House bill disproportionally targets and harms children…

House Cuts to Kids: Threatens Both Their and Our Nation’s Future https://link.medium.com/OiwVesVSqzb

Don Falls teaches #HighSchool social studies in #ManateeCounty, #Florida.

"I'm a Florida teacher who's been forced to cover up the books in my classroom. Here's why I'm suing Ron DeSantis."

This year, a new law in Florida requires that all books in public schools be vetted for #children.

High school social studies teacher Don Falls said he covered up his books to comply with the law.

#RonDeSantis #Education #SocialStudies
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-teacher-books-classroom-desantis-2023-1

Ron DeSantis is making it hard for teachers like me to do our jobs

A high school social studies teacher spoke with Insider about being an educator as Florida rolls out a new law requiring all books to be vetted.

Insider

America has a powerful way to reduce #ChildPoverty & the pandemic's large-scale social experiments proved it: Expanding the #ChildTaxCredit (an advance of approx $300/month) in 2021 was the lead reason US child #poverty reached #HISTORIC lows that year.

It expired in 2021 & #Dems are fighting to save it but the #GOP has made it clear they want business #TaxCuts only, no talk of the CTC.

This is what happens when you demonize the poor.

#unjust #classist #SocialJustice

https://bit.ly/3HIGFzR

Child Tax Credit expansions were instrumental in reducing poverty rates to historic lows in 2021

Government policies enacted in the wake of the pandemic have proven critical for reducing child poverty in the United States. Census Bureau data released last week showed that government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. Child poverty reached its lowest level on record, as calculated by the Supplemental…

Economic Policy Institute

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of Montana’s Far-Reaching Anti-Vax Law
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A federal judge in #Montana has blocked the state from implementing a law that would make it illegal for #hospitals to ask employees if they are vaccinated. The measure was the country’s most extreme anti-vaccination law.

#Healthcare providers in Montana had sued the state over the law, arguing that it violates #constitutional protections for #disabled Americans.

#vaccines #covid #health

https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judge-strikes-down-part-of-montana-anti-vax-law?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Federal Judge Strikes Down Part of Montana’s Far-Reaching Anti-Vax Law

ProPublica recently explored how Republicans in Montana passed the country’s most extreme anti-vaccination law and a hospital soon became overtaken by COVID. Now a judge has ruled the law went too far.

ProPublica
Let’s make a deal: White House ready to bargain over expanded Child Tax Credit - @adamcancryn - POLITICO https://buff.ly/3UYlXPG
Failure to act would cause 3-4M children to be pushed back into poverty.
#ChildTaxCredit #InvestInKids #CutChildPoverty
Let’s make a deal: White House ready to bargain over expanded Child Tax Credit

The last-minute push would concede on a work requisite tied to expanding the credit.

POLITICO
A budget that puts America first would first and foremost invest in our nation’s children. #InvestInKids
America’s youngest generation is set to become the best‑educated, most accomplished, & most tolerant in our history. Across the country, children are studying hard, modeling kindness $ compassion, & making their voices heard on today’s biggest issues….”
- President Biden
#NationalChildsDay
#InvestInKids