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Significant Improvements Coming to Child Care Programs
Access to affordable quality child care is essential to both ensuring that children are prepared for school and allowing parents to work. In Nebraska, the majority of children under the age of 6 have...
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Race Matters in Economic Opportunity
In order for our state to have a strong economic future, we need to ensure that all our children grow up with the resources and skills they need to become productive working adults. Unfortunately for...
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Economic Stability in 2015
Photo by MIKI Yoshihito via Creative Commons We want Nebraska to be a place where all kids have the best possible opportunity to succeed. With the growing number of kids living in poverty and ongoing...
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Health Care in 2015
Photo by Judy Schmidt, CDC Good health and access to quality affordable health care is important for everyone, but it’s even more important for kids. This is because our health during critical...
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Medicaid at 50
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the act that created the Medicaid program. Today, Medicaid serves as a critical health safety net for low-income elderly people,...
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Help us make Nebraska the best place to be a kid!
At Voices for Children, we believe that all kids deserve the best possible opportunity to succeed regardless of the circumstances they are born into. For almost 30 years, we have worked to hold...
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Thank you!
Every year, Voices for Children proudly joins many other Omaha-area nonprofits in Omaha Gives! This year’s 24-hour online giving campaign raised over $8 million and demonstrated our community’s strong...
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The Cost of Being Poor
Thanks to all who attended the event on Friday,”The Cost of Being Poor: How Small Debt Lawsuits are Hurting Nebraska Families.” At the event, speaker Paul Kiel from Propublica shared the findings...
View ArticleWhat Senator Sasse’s New Book Gets Wrong About Our Kids
I have to start by admitting that I haven’t read Senator Sasse’s new book, “The Vanishing American Adult”. I’ve only read excerpts and reviews. But from what I understand, his book suggests that what...
View ArticlePaid Family Leave Helps Families and Business
This is a guest post from Hilary Dessouky, a Nebraskan who now works for Patagonia, a company that supports families by offering generous benefits like paid family leave and on-site child care Growing...
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