Policy Archive

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act are waiting with bated breath to see the eventual outcome of the controversial legislation.  Needless to say, opponents of the law which they derisively refer to as “Obamacare,” are seizing any and every opportunity …

*Special Weekend News* Australia’s Mental Health Act is currently under reform and being re-written as part of that the Mental Health Act 1986 – Reform Drafting of the new Mental Health Act is underway. The legislative reforms will promote recovery …

Few people believed the government would be shutdown because the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party are so adamant about the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which they derisively refer to as “ObamaCare”.  Yet, here …

First Focus‘ recently published report, Children’s Budget 2013, shows a decline in total federal spending on children for three consecutive years and reports that less than 8 percent of the federal budget is invested in children. Current Congressional budget negotiations pose a real threat …

If, as we often say, children are our future, you would think we pursue policies to ensure that more of the nation’s children develop into healthy and productive citizens.  Wait, you say, that is not the job of the federal …

Declaring in a speech Monday to the American Bar Association that “widespread incarceration at the federal, state, and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable”, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a number of policy directives aimed at winding down the …

Congressional Social Work Caucus Chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA13) recently threw her support behind the efforts of the producers of a film titled “A Place At The Table” which documents the struggle of millions of Americans to adequately feed themselves …