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The effort to cut off benefits to some welfare recipients caught using drugs raises questions about what happens to some innocent bystanders—their children.
The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program provides aid to families between jobs…The House has advanced a bill requiring drug testing to TANF recipients and a cutoff of benefits to those caught using….The Senate is debating its own bill. [Read more...]
Missouri’s top children’s advocacy group is watching legislation that would affect children.
Citizens for Missouri’s Children says several bills indirectly affect kids in our state, such as budget cuts to certain programs, restrictions on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, unemployment cuts and the like. But Director Scott Gee says a couple of directly affect children, one is a bill that would require the reporting of health insurance information on Missouri income tax returns. (HB 1625)
Gee says about 130,000 children in the state are uninsured — about 80,000 would qualify for the state’s healthcare program — CHIPS.
Use drugs, lose assistance from the state, the gist of a bill passing the House and moving to the Senate.
Critics assailed the plan to strip Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as TANF, from anyone testing positive for drug use, still it passed Thursday on a 114-to-39 vote. It now moves to the Senate which has stalled in working on its own version. [Read more...]
The underpants bomber was talking, quit talking, and now he’s talking again. Senator Bond accuses the White House of politicizing the investigation.
Abdulmutallab — the Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up a plane in Detroit on Christmas — is apparently talking with authorities again. Senator Bond says the decision to give him Miranda rights was a bad idea in the first place.
Bond says while Washington is frozen under, the White House has picked a heated fight — the administration is lobbying charges of politics, when the only one making this political is the White House.
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