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NEW COMMISSION ON CHILDREN LOOKS TO TACKLE POVERTY
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:15 AM
A new governmental panel that combines the efforts of more than 30 boards and commissions dealing with children’s issues is meeting for the first time Wednesday
(Smith, Indiana Public Media)
. The Commission for Improving the Status of Children is made up experts and state officials involved in children’s issues, including the Department of Child Services director, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the state Health Director, the Attorney General and state lawmakers. Syracuse Republican Representative Rebecca Kubacki, who serves on the commission, says the panel has to ensure that it provides actual solutions rather than just discussing ideas and generating reports that no one reads. She says one way to do that is to focus on specific goals early on. “It’s like eating an elephant,” she says. “You take one bite at a time and really start to look at what has the most negative impact on our kids and starting working our way down from that.” Senate Minority Leader and commission member Tim Lanane says he’s already got issues in mind he’d like to see the commission tackle. “One has to do with the fact that now in Indiana, almost one out of four children live below the poverty level,” he says. “So how do we lift families, how do we lift children out of poverty in coming generations?” Kubacki says at the commission’s first meeting, she’s hoping to develop a list of top priority issues and begin generating ideas to combat the most critical.
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The Azar, Verma feud festers
"The federal agency I lead, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is taking swift action to implement it."
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Director Seema Verma
, in Chicago Tribune op-ed. That same day,
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar
went on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fix News — one of
President Trump’s
favorite TV shows — and claimed credit for driving the same initiative. “POTUS and I envision a healthcare system with patients in the center,” Azar tweeted from the Fox News set. “We’re fighting powerful interests to deliver honesty and transparency in healthcare.” The feud between these two Hoosiers who control more than $1 trillion in annual federal spending has transfixed The White House West wing and Washington. President Trump has asked
Vice President Mike Pence
to quell the Azar/Veerma feud.
The tossup 2020 presidential race
Can
President Trump
be reelected in 2020? His
Real Clear Politics
approve/disapprove composite is 43.9%/53.5%, which is 9.6% under water. In Indiana, politicians hovering in the low 40th percentile (i.e.
Sens. Richard Lugar
in 2012 Republican primary and
Joe Donnelly
in 2016 general election) lose.
But in the state polls like the Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin, only
Joe Biden
(47-46%) had an edge over the president in one of the so-called Blue Wall States. Trump tops
Bernie Sanders
(47-45),
Elizabeth Warren
(45-44%) and
Pete Buttigieg
(44-43%).
When you look at 2020 state-by-state, this looks like a tossup race. Throw in the House impeachment folly (and certain Senate acquittal), and you now understand why President Trump is holding MAGA rallies in places like Hershey, PA, and Grand Rapids, Mich.
If Democrats veer left and put Sanders or Warren atop the ticket, and leave off someone like
Sen. Amy Klobachar,
2020 could find history repeating itself.
- Brian A. Howey,
publisher.
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