{"id":5196,"date":"2023-06-02T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/02\/report-texas-legislature-did-little-to-help-kids-this-session-and-took-steps-backward-on-child-welfare\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:09:20","slug":"report-texas-legislature-did-little-to-help-kids-this-session-and-took-steps-backward-on-child-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/02\/report-texas-legislature-did-little-to-help-kids-this-session-and-took-steps-backward-on-child-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Texas Legislature did little to help kids this session and took steps backward on child welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           Despite Texas lawmakers&#8217; assurances during the recently ended legislative session that they had children&#8217;s health, safety and wellbeing at the top of their priority list, a new report suggests they fell significantly short. In that report, the advocacy group Texans Care for Children called out the Republican-controlled Lege for dropping the ball on major opportunities to the state&#8217;s kids \u2014 especially when it comes to health coverage. Indeed, the session included significant steps backward, including banning gender-affirming care for minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Texas lawmakers&#8217; assurances during the recently ended legislative session that they had children&#8217;s health, safety and wellbeing at the top of their priority list, a new report suggests they fell significantly short. In that report, the advocacy group Texans Care for Children called out the Republican-controlled Lege for dropping the ball on major opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}