Legislation that would deny food assistance to parents who have not been cooperating with the stateâs efforts to collect child support is getting another airing-out after being vetoed in 2019.
The bill, brought by Billings Republican Rep. Frank Fleming, was sharply criticized Thursday by a succession of single mothers, advocacy group lobbyists and other opponents as endangering already vulnerable women in poverty while yielding minimal cooperation with child support in other states that have enacted similar laws.
âI think it is especially cruel that a bill such as this would be introduced during a pandemic, when instead of finding ways to kick people off of assistance, we should be finding ways to help them,â Danielle Vazquez, with Indigenous Organizers Collective of Montana, told the House Human Services Committee.
WBGZ Radio 1/26/2021 |
By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network
The reopening of Illinois’ public schools for in-person education has become a struggle between districts hoping to curb the documented learning loss of their students forced into virtual education and teacher unions who say their members will die if they’re sent back into classrooms.
Stuck in the middle are families who, as surveys continue to show, are suffering lasting financial hardship from losing the ability to leave for work.
In December, the U.S. Chamber Foundation released a report on the importance of childcare in today’s modern workforce and how pandemic-induced closures of schools and daycares.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (IRN) The reopening of Illinois’ public schools for in-person education has become a struggle between districts hoping to curb the documented learning loss of their students forced into virtual education and teacher unions who say their members will die if they’re sent back into classrooms.
Stuck in the middle are families who, as surveys continue to show, are suffering lasting financial hardship from losing the ability to leave for work.
In December, the U.S. Chamber Foundation released a report on the importance of childcare in today’s modern workforce and how pandemic-induced closures of schools and daycares.