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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

Three years ago, advocates for military families succeeded in winning a significant expansion in survivor benefits, which include life insurance, a death gratuity, medical care and housing and education assistance. But the increases have left some widows and next of kin clearly rattled by the collision of mourning and money. %26#8220;It%26#8217;s like winning the [...]

Up to 2 million children are being let down by the government’s literacy strategy because it has failed to target the children falling furthest behind, research shows.Schools are not identifying children at risk, says the research, which reveals that 2 million children have dyslexic-type learning difficulties, more than has previously been thought but in line [...]

Damning new evidence that faith schools are siphoning off middle-class pupils can be revealed today, as research shows they are failing to take children from the poorest backgrounds nationwide.Even when they are situated in deprived inner-city areas, religious schools have fewer poor children than local authority secondary schools.New figures show that religious schools, in England, [...]

A casino would create many desperately needed jobs, acknowledges Mr. Shade, who was chief of the reserve from 1996 until 2004, when debate over building a gambling resort reached its peak (he’s now CEO for the band’s health department). In fact, the Blood Tribe had been one of the first in Alberta to seek a [...]

By Daren Butler and Mustafa Mehdi Vural CIZRE, Turkey, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Turkish troops are hunting down Kurdish guerrillas across the border in Iraq, but in southeast Turkey young rappers are keeping alive the spirit of rebellion by reaching for the microphone rather than the gun. MC Hayalet (Ghost) [...]

Secondary schools that have been abandoned by middle class families should be closed to guard against social segregation, according to the admissions watchdog.School catchment areas should also be redrawn to force a more socially mixed education system, Philip Hunter, the chief schools adjudicator told the Guardian.He cited the Ridings school in Halifax, which is to [...]

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Mark Dixie and Steve Wright, both
jailed in U.K. murder cases last week, have something else in
common: the countrys DNA database helped secure their
convictions.
Dixie, who raped and murdered [...]

%26#8220;This is my house! Let me in!%26#8221; he cried, before collapsing outside the front door, freshly sealed with yellow police tape. The swift eviction of the boy%26#8217;s family was the work of Toncho Zourlev, a k a the Enforcer, a no-nonsense Bulgarian who leads an eviction squad set up by the United Nations in [...]

There was a rare answer here on Friday: Require him to give $250,000 to a foundation that helps the families of injured Chicago police officers.Joseph Pannell, 58, who admits that he shot a police officer here in 1969, will serve just 30 days in jail and two years%26#8217; probation as part of a plea [...]