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Judge OKs $1.8 billion Medicaid plan for Texas children.
U.S.
District Judge William Wayne Justice today approved a nearly $1.8 billion,
two-year plan to improve services to children enrolled in Medicaid. (United
States)
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Hundreds of autistic children will be able to
go to special summer camps because of last-minute funding from the Ontario
government, CP has learned. (Canada)
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A massive program
by the New York City public school system to give free meals to the city's
children has become one of the largest summer anti-hunger efforts in the
nation, a newspaper reported Tuesday. (United States)
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More than half of otherwise healthy children in
a study had low blood levels of Vitamin D and some were so deficient that
they could develop serious health problems in later life, including rickets,
according to a new study. (United States)
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ILO launches
campaign fighting child workers in agriculture sector. Some 20 million
children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17 work in Latin America
and the Caribbean. The International Labor Organization (ILO) said June 12
that 70 percent of them work in the agricultural sector, subjecting
themselves to harsh labor conditions, including long workdays, dangerous
chemicals and handling heavy machinery. (Peru)
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Providing gainful employment
for unemployed mothers is critical to dealing with child poverty, according
to Betty-Ann Blaine, convenor of advocacy group Hear The Children's Cry.
(Jamaica)
