It wants her to reopen the state budget for 2009 and sharply to raise child-welfare allowances.
Hot meals, food vouchers, subsidised shoes and uniforms and even making child-welfare payments conditional on attendance all help.
The Governor had promised four years ago to fix the state's child-welfare mess.
" The statement goes on to say that "except when significant harm to a future child is likely, " they "should not be required to make assessments of a patient's child-rearing abilities or other child welfare issues.
This workforce opt-out, incidentally, was more than twice that of contemporary Greece, the poster child for modern welfare-state dysfunction.
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Transitional child-care benefits are also available to welfare recipients who become ineligible because of marriage.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1991 requires clinics to take account of the welfare of the unborn child - including the need for a father.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicted in December that the welfare shake-up would increase relative child poverty figures by 200, 000 in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Charities concerned with child welfare are also reluctant to sound too positive - not least because of anxieties over how austerity will impact on young people's lives in the coming years.
This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.
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What really turns him on, apart from macroeconomic policy, are welfare and labour-market issues such as reducing child poverty and getting unemployed people back to work.
Though elected in 1998 as a self-declared reformer who promised to fix the school system and improve child welfare, Mr Bush is now vulnerable on both counts.
Catholic Charities Agencies have long-standing partnerships with the federal government on challenges ranging from housing to disaster response to child welfare and more.
The bishops - known as "Lords Spiritual" - courted controversy recently when one of them led opposition to plans to include child benefit in a cap on welfare payments to families.
On February 26, Penn State's vice president told Curley, the athletic director, to contact Sandusky, alert child welfare authorities and inform Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded for disadvantaged children, a purported e-mail says.
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