ROCKVILLE, Maryland, July 2 -- The American Kidney Fund issued the following statement by President and CEO LaVarne A. Burton on the approval of Medicaid expansion: "This morning hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma residents previously ineligible for Medicaid woke up to good news. Last night voters narrowly approved the initiative to expand Medicaid at a time when the state is seeing a big increase in enrollment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Oklahoma joins several other states--Maine, Utah, Ida  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 2 -- The Idaho Education Association issued the following news: Idaho ranks last among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in per-student funding, according to the annual Rankings and Estimates released by the National Education Association. The state provided $6,747 of funding for each K-12 public school student in 2018-19; an increase of $8 per student over the previous year, when the state also placed at the very bottom of the rankings. "Idaho students deserve bett  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Afterschool Alliance issued the following news release: The New York Life Foundation in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance announced $1.35 million in new grants to support middle school youth during the out-of-school time (OST) hours to 26 youth development organizations in Alabama, Arizona, California (6), Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida (3), Georgia (2), Idaho, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York (2), Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and  more