Media Coverage

Kaiser Health News February 1, 2019 By: Ashley Lopez As U.S. immigration enforcement becomes stricter under the Trump administration, more immigrant families are cutting ties with health care services and other critical government programs, according to child advocates who work with such families. … Joan Alker, author of the Georgetown report, said the Trump administration’s […]

Think Progress January 28, 2019 By: Amanda Michelle Gomez The Utah state legislature returns to work on Monday and GOP lawmakers are already proposing multiple bills that hobble a successful ballot measure to expand health care to more low-income residents. Utah State Sen. Allen Christensen’s (R) bill would prevent the ballot initiative — “Proposition 3,” […]

NPR January 24, 2019 By: Ashley Lopez … The report shows that after years of steady decline, the number (and percentage) of uninsured children in the U.S. increased in 2017, the first year of Trump’s presidency. Nationally, 5 percent of all kids are uninsured — and in Texas the rate rose to 10.7 percent, up from 9.8 […]

Center for Health Journalism January 24, 2019 By: Kellie Schmitt Prioritizing investments in early childhood is supported by brain development research, which shows a child’s earliest months and years — even before birth — are a key window of both opportunity and vulnerability, according to Elisabeth Wright Burak, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center […]

Public News Service January 31, 2019 As many as 68,000 Tennesseans would be affected by a proposal to require parents who now receive Medicaid to demonstrate that they’re working at least 20 hours a week, according to a new report.  The report from the Tennessee Justice Center and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families is […]