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Pennsylvania advocates push for Congress to reauthorize home visit programs for kids and parents
Federal authorization for a program that helps pregnant girls and households with younger kids will expire on the finish of September, and Pennsylvania advocates are pushing Congress to resume it to keep away from any disruption in companies.
The Maternal, Toddler, and Early Childhood Residence Visiting Program gives residence visiting companies — a voluntary program for folks of very younger kids.
Residence customer packages range. Relying on this system, the house customer is perhaps a nurse, a social employee, or baby improvement skilled. Whereas some packages prohibit companies to low-income households, others are open to households of any revenue stage. All goal to assist educate households about parenting and baby improvement and assist them to navigate what may be an intense and hectic time.
Round 3,000 households obtain residence visiting companies statewide; advocates say this system solely reaches a fraction of eligible households attributable to funding constraints.
“There are libraries’ price of analysis that showcase the advantages of residence visiting below MEICHV funding, together with the discount in maternal mortality and morbidity; enhancements to toddler, baby, well being, faculty readiness, the deal with the household and selling the well-being and stability of the complete household,” stated Sarah Rittling, govt director of advocacy group the First 5 Years Fund.
Federal funding for residence visiting by MIECHV is about $400 million yearly nationwide.
State human service officers say they’ve sufficient of a cushion that if this system is just not reauthorized on time, there are sufficient funds to maintain this system going for a while. Pennsylvania additionally dietary supplements the federal funds it receives with greater than $40 million in state cash to help residence visiting packages.
With Congress on recess for many of August, advocates say they’re involved this system’s federal funding and authorization might be allowed to lapse on the finish of September.
“I am fairly panicked that we’re so near September thirtieth, and we have not seen any motion in Washington,” stated Kari King, govt director of advocacy group Pennsylvania Partnerships for Youngsters.
When this system was up for reauthorization in 2017, MIECHV reauthorization was allowed to lapse for plenty of months, together with a number of different federal packages, caught in a bigger political dispute in regards to the Reasonably priced Care Act and different points.
For extra details about Residence Visiting packages in Pennsylvania, click on right here.
 "Trump to hold rally in Erie as Pennsylvania becomes key 2024 battleground")
Of the seven competitive states that both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival, have a realistic shot at winning, Pennsylvania is the most populous and awards the most votes in the Electoral College, which in turn is used to select the overall winner of the election.
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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate is set to hold a rally in Pennsylvania today, his fourth campaign stop in the state this month. Erie, located in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, will host the former president at 2 pm local time.
This rally comes one month after his running mate, US Senator JD Vance held a similar event in the same city. Trump has another rally scheduled in western Pennsylvania for October 5.
Pennsylvania has emerged as a crucial battleground state in the 2024 election, with many of Trump’s allies considering it the most important state to win. The state’s significance stems from its large population and the substantial number of electoral votes it awards, making it a critical factor in determining the overall winner of the election.
In fact, among the seven competitive states that both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a realistic chance of winning, Pennsylvania stands out as the most populous and electorally valuable.
Trump allies broadly believe that if the former president beats Harris there, he is likely to return to the White House. But if Trump loses to Harris in Pennsylvania, the vice president has the inside track, in their opinion.
In a reflection of the stakes, Harris and Trump have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ads in Pennsylvania in the months before the election, more than any other state in both gross and per capita terms.
Erie, the site of Trump’s rally, is a battleground inside a battleground. Erie County is one of two Pennsylvania counties that favored Trump in the 2016 election against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton before favoring President Joe Biden against Trump in 2020.
Trump narrowly won the state and the election overall in 2016, before losing both in 2020.
This time around, Pennsylvania is again competitive, according to surveys. Harris leads Trump by 1.6 percentage points in the state, according to an average of polls maintained by polling and analysis website FiveThirtyEight. That difference is well within almost all polls’ margin of error.
Trump’s next rally in Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, will take place in Butler, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Erie. That town was the site of a failed assassination attempt on Trump in July. A bullet grazed the former president’s ear.
With inputs from agencies.
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