Investing in babies and moms is transformative, particularly in communities with deep financial insecurity like Buffalo, where over 40% of children live in poverty.
State officials are currently forbidden from using taxpayer funds to visit over half of the United States. Now lawmakers want to take a different approach.
month for three years. the pilot program known as the bridge project aims to keep mothers and their babies out of poverty. holly fogle is one to have the founders one of the found. cash is the uniforms answer to individual problems. we cut out the bureaucracy, go right to the mother who knows more than anyone else in the world what that baby needs today. reporter: how crucial has this been for them? also summed up by mothers saying i m able to breathe. reporter: the bridge project is open to pregnant women and new moms in certain low income neighborhoods in new york city. by the summer the program will have more than 6 600 mothers enrolled. we chose three years intentionally, first, because the first 1,000 days of life are so, so critical for the baby s brain, so we re really laying the foundation for the rest of their life. reporter: fogel says right now the average income for mothers participating is less than $15,000 a year. where does the funding come
Indian states engage with foreign countries on the rigorous logic of our constitutional provision that foreign affairs is exclusively a “union” subject. This has conditioned state participation in external activities, especially in marketing abroad, or assisting with exports and foreign direct investment, and acting as foreign bridge-builders.
This article began as an email to a friend, Carl Jaison, who heads the “Bridge Project,” initiated by a group of students and young people.
1 Later, on checking the 2019–20 Annual Report of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) it became clear that the pioneering work being done by MEA’s states division (established in 2014) deserves better notice than it has received. Why do countries deploy sub-state entities in foreign affairs? It widens choices, deepens connections with foreign partners, extends the home country’s reach, and brings economic and other benefits. It also improves the country’s image. In diplomatic stu