2008

• Generating Change for Children: New Report Showcases Strategies and Practices That Drove New Investments for Early Care & Education (3/4/08 - from VOICES for America's Children)
  
  
• Children Absent from Senate Budget (2/26/08)
  
  
• Foundations Infuse Major Investment in Health Care Reform Advocacy in Washington (2/7/08)
  
  
• Children's Alliance Comments on Braam Lawsuit Court Action (1/16/200)
  
  
• Braam Plaintiffs Return to Court - Press Release from Columbia Legal Services (1/16/2008)

2007

• School Breakfast Initiative Pays Off (12/11/07)
  
  
• Washington's Food Insecurity Rate Drops for Second Straight Year, 11/14/07
  
  
• Defend SCHIP: The Health Coalition for Children and Youth Support for Legal Action, 10/1/07
  
  
• 2007 Champions for Children Announced, 5/23/07
  
  
• Value of Food Stamp Benefits in Washington Shrinking, 5/21/07
  
  
• 2007 Voices for Children Award Winners Announced, 4/11/07
  
  
• New law ensures comprehensive, affordable health coverage for every child in Washington, 3/12/07
  
  
• Widespread praise for passage of children's health bill, 3/6/07
  • "Summary of SB 5093 in plain language, 3/6/07
    


• Advocates for children praise passage of SSB5093, 2/14/07
  
  
•  Hundreds to Place Children First at Rally in Olympia, 2/6/07
  
  
•  Broad support for Governor's children's health bill, 1/18/07

2006

•  Governor proposes important investments in kids, 12/19/06
  
  
•  Washington's Food Insecurity Rate Drops, 11/21/06
  
  
•  Soldiers from the Front Lines of Washington's Health Care Crisis Celebrate Good News and Acknowledge Work to be Done, 10/30/06
  
  
•  One-half of Seattle's Poor Missing Out on Food Stamps, 10/19/06
  
  
•  Only 14% of low-income school kids get summer meals, 7/13/06
  
  
•  State-level data show more than half of young children in Family, Friend and Neighbor care, 6/27/06
  
  
•  Voices for Children Award Winners Announced, 5/1/06
  
  
•   Representative Joe McDermott Honored by Children's Alliance, 4/13/06
  
  
•  State Budget Moves Towards Better Future for Children, 3/7/06
  
  
•  House Budget No Better for Children, 2/21/06
  
  
•  Senate Budget Falls Short for Children, 2/15/06
  
  
•  Federal Budget Gives Washington State $23 million for Children's Health, 2/14/06
  
  
•  Hundreds of Child Advocates to Rally in Olympia, 2/8/06
  
  
•  13,000 Children Now Waiting for Health Care, 1/27/06

2005

•  Governor's Budget Leaves Out Vulnerable Children, 12/20/05
  
  
•  Congressman Rick Larsen joins the Children's Alliance and Anti-Hunger and Nutrition Coalition to urge Congress not to "cut the legs out from under the food stamp program with drastic and dangerous funding cuts." 8/31/05
  
  
•  The 2005 Voices for Children Luncheon, 5/27/05
  
  
•  Children's Alliance report shows 62,000 children have lost Medicaid coverage, 12/21/04
  
  
•  Children's Alliance Applauds Braam Lawsuit Settlement, 8/11/04
  
  
•  Children's Alliance Endorses I-884, 8/2/04
  
  
•  Free SummerMeals Still Reach Only a Fraction of Children in Need, 7/29/04
  
  
•  Advocates Thank Governor Locke for Delaying Implementation of Children's Health Premiums, 6/8/04
  
  
•  New Report on Immigrant Health Explains Loss of Health Insurance for 17,000 Children in Washington, 5/26/04
  
  
•  Children's Alliance Responds to DSHS Program Improvement Plan, 5/24/04
  
  
•  State Investment in Early Learning Inadequate, 4/5/04
  
  
•  Children's Alliance Reacts to Senate and House Budgets
  
  
•  Reaction to Governor's Supplemental Budget
  
  
•  New Children's Alliance Executive Director
  
  
•  Hungry in Washington: Acting on the Evidence
  
  
•  Summer Food Program: Increase in Programs and Children in Need
  
  
•  Child Abuse Reporting Will Return to Local Communities
  
  
•  Budget Deal Leaves 20,000 Kids Uninsured
  
  
•  Child Advocates Call on Pregnant Mothers to Contact their Legislators
  
  
•  Premiums Push Children off Health Insurance
  
  
•  State Senate Proposes Cuts to Prenatal Care for 12,000 Immigrant Women
  
  
•  Research Shows Legislative Proposal for Health Premiums Would Leave Children Newly Uninsured
  
  
•  If we can raise taxes for roads, we can and should raise taxes for children's health
  
  

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