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New York Times: Obama Panel to Curb Medicare Finds Foes in Both Parties

Washington Post: More veterans and spouses could gain from
Aid and Attendance pension benefit

Stateline: Medicaid explained: How would block grants work?

Planting day at the Urban Harvest Garden, Portland, Oregon.
The garden is a joint project of the Urban League of Portland and the African Women's Coalition.

We Did It!

There’s great news for everybody who joined us to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement improved nutrition standards in public schools. People showed up by the busload to tell the agency to pass the standards. In fact, if everybody who commented showed up to the USDA together, it would take 2,760 school buses to carry us all.

New York Times: A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age

 NPR: Mentally Ill Languish In Hospital Emergency Rooms

School Meal Action Alert

The facts:

• 36 percent of African American children ages two to 19 are overweight or obese.
• Obese children are more than twice as likely to die before the age of 55 compared with healthy-weight children.

The camp