Children’s Health At Risk

The Daily World

By: Noam N. Levey

Communities like this aging West Virginia coal town along the Kanawha River were key to President Donald Trump’s victory last year; more than two-thirds of voters in surrounding Fayette County backed the Republican nominee.

“There is very strong return on the Medicaid investment,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families.

But in many big cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago, where jobs are relatively plentiful, most children don’t have government health coverage, according to the enrollment data assembled by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

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