It's crucial the government gets the child poverty strategy right. This is a landmark opportunity to set a truly transformative agenda for long-term change, but in an increasingly challenging economic climate there is every reason to worry warm words will not translate into tangible progress. Targets will provide much-needed benchmarks to track progress and keep driving action forward. The government's reticence so far has left us worried they're looking to dodge this vital layer of scrutiny.
What we are going to do through this agenda of curing procurement is to ensure that every single dollar we spend within the Department of Education is $1 that is furthering our mission of delivering excellent education to students across the five boroughs, he said, during a Tuesday news conference on the Upper West Side in which he unveiled the plan.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald raised the heartbreaking case of nine-year-old Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who died in July. "He was failed by the Government. Harvey's case is not an isolated case. Such failures are shamefully a hallmark of your Government," she told Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns also raised the case, slating the Government for painfully slow progress on the issue of disability. "Sixteen thousand children are overdue an assessment of need, essential therapies are non-existent and hundreds of children left in agony waiting for spinal surgery," she said.
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt joined two Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to bring attention to a newly launched congressional investigation into the response to the Palisades fire in Los Angeles. "I feel like this is going to be so powerful for all of the United States because there shouldn't be disasters that are preventable," Pratt, who lost his home during the fire, told reporters.
ED is covering up its attempts to make [the Office of Federal Student Aid] less responsive to millions of students, families, and borrowers who rely on the agency to lower the cost of attending college and protect them from loan servicer misconduct," the senators wrote. "We urge you to immediately act on our findings by streamlining the 'Submit a Complaint' process and restoring FSA's workforce so borrowers can get the help they need.
The report lays bare the reasons why prisons have become so consistently overcrowded over so many years to the point of frequent near-collapse.
Rep. Don Bacon warns that Trump’s firing of public officials for unfavorable data undermines trust in the U.S. economy and government system, indicating significant negative repercussions.
Basically, they are there as agents of the state, and we end up seeing it time after time after time. And there will be further injustices perpetrated because the police do what they do.
The report found that Prevent suffered from a long string of failings while trying to deradicalise the man who later assassinated Sir David Amess. Much blame is attributed to poor judgment and lack of communication regarding the assessment and mentoring process.
Whether we agree or disagree with the Supreme Court's most recent emergency rulings, we're all victims of a supreme injustice when the issues being decided don't comply with Supreme Court requirements for emergencies.
New York State has announced a major statewide crackdown on Medicaid transportation fraud, recovering over $13 million from 25 companies accused of defrauding the Medicaid system.
Rachel Reeves emphasized that Keir Starmer's new inquiry on child sexual exploitation is a genuine step towards prioritizing victims, moving beyond past hesitations for broader investigation.
