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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney holds up a copy of President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 federal budget. His $4.1 trillion plan for the budget year beginning Oct. 1 generally proposes deep cuts in safety net programs, including Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Dysfunctional Republicans CHIP away at kids’ health care

Amidst his latest tweets, how many times has Trump worked his thumbs into a rage about the cancellation of the federal health insurance program that covers nine million kids?

8 years ago

Mastery Cramer Hill Elementary school students Marvell Rivera and Jadhiel Tineo wave flags at the school dedication in Camden Tuesday morning. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

In Camden, a timeless time capsule celebrates new charter school

Mastery Schools of Camden dedicated a gleaming new building Tuesday. But a small chrome cylinder stole the show.

8 years ago

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Community

First Person: Louise Ballard

The wife of fallen Delaware state police trooper Cpl. Stephen J. Ballard is honoring the memory of her husband with a reading program.

8 years ago

A little girl plays basketball in the gym during an afterschool program at Olney Rec Center
Community

Goal of youth sports task force: Offer ‘good wholesome activities’ for all Philly kids

Philadelphia is developing a plan to ensure youth sports reach every neighborhood in the city by empowering a task force to help make it a reality.

8 years ago

Education

3 Delaware elementary schools National Blue Ribbon winners

Three Delaware elementary schools -- two in Sussex County and one in New Castle county -- are among the 342 across America named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2017.

8 years ago

The cover of local author Becky Birtha's book evokes prison bars because it focuses on kids coping when their parents are incarcerated. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Book explores how kids cope with parents in prison

Nearly 3 million children in the U.S. have a parent in jail or prison. Local author Becky Birtha is hoping her children's book, "Far Apart, Close in Heart," will help them.

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Is opera relevant to our IGen kids?

I know it doesn’t happen for every parent, so having a child who shares my passion for theater, music, books and arts and culture in general feels really good.

8 years ago

Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington's Southbridge neighborhood has been selected for a $106,832 state
Education

Needy Delaware schools get $1 million in ‘opportunity’ grants’

Nine Delaware school districts and charter schools have received a total of $1 million in so-called "opportunity grants." the governor's office announced Tuesday.

8 years ago

Nine-month-old Aarav Vyas (right) wears a shirt with the slogan ''I sleep with this side up.'' He and his mother, Aasta Mehta, along with Jasmine Pitt-Mitchell and her 6-month-daughter, Leilani (left) helped to kick off Philadelphia's safe sleeping campaign. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Philly launches effort to prevent infant sleeping deaths

Each year, 30 infants die sleep-related deaths in Philadelphia, that’s part of why the city’s infant mortality rate is worse ...

8 years ago

Court gavel, brown wood against a dark background
Courts & Law

Philly defense attorneys’ group: Oversight tightened in wake of whistleblower lawsuit

After learning one of their attorneys was working with a suspended license, the Defender Association of Philadelphia has tightened the rules.

8 years ago

A woman holds her 49-day-old grandson who was being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy. The baby was treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New Jersey. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Lifestyle

Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000. The syndrome can occur if a woman ...

8 years ago

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Courts & Law

Feds seek delay of child sex abuse trial of former Dover airman

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

8 years ago

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

8 years ago

Abdiaziz Shaleh, right, a Lewiston high school senior and co-captain of the soccer team, and Essa Gedi, center, both whose families emigrated from Somalia, sit with classmate Isiah Leach, left, during lunch in the school's cafeteria in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Two years ago, immigrant children led the high school soccer team to win the state championship, a moment heralded as a triumph for the city's embrace of its immigrant community. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Radio Times
Education

School lunch; teens and sleep

Guests: Marlene Schwartz, Justin Gallagher, Wendy Troxel, Amy Norr The Trump administration has said it wants to ...

Air Date: September 13, 2017

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Health

On Radio Times: New approach to fighting pediatric leukemia approved by the FDA

There was exciting news in the world of cancer research this week. On Wednesday, the FDA approved the first gene therapy to treat a form ...

8 years ago

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