Tag: Child Poverty
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How CrossPurpose is breaking families out of generations of poverty | Vince Bzdek
When Jason Janz moved into Five Points a decade and a half ago, he hadn’t planned to dedicate his life to helping families get out of generational poverty. But then he got to know Tiffany Johnson. “This all happened out of a relationship with our literal next-door neighbor, Tiffany,” Janz told me. Janz could tell…
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Estimated 325,000 Coloradans will lose Medicaid with end of COVID-19 public health emergency
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With the federal government’s COVID-19 public health emergency set to end in May, an estimated 325,000 Coloradans face losing Medicaid coverage. To put that number into perspective, Colorado enrolled 400,000 people in the first two years of the state’s Medicaid expansion in 2014. “The magnitude…
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Report: Many Colorado families struggling to meet children’s needs during pandemic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An increasing number of Colorado families are experiencing financial and psychological distress while caring for their children during the COVID-19 pandemic, a policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found. The report, “Kids, Families and COVID-19,” examines data from weekly U.S. Census Bureau surveys…