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Senate Bill 840, The California Universal Healthcare Act, passed the State Senate by a vote of 23 to 15 and now moves to the State Assembly.   SB 840 is the only universal health care proposal in the Legislature (no author has picked up Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal) which offers comprehensive care and has been likened to Medicare, a single-payer system for elderly Americans. Under SB 840, health care delivery would remain private with the state acting as the insurance company. Despite spending $186 billion per year on health care, California has 6.5 million residents with no health insurance. Between 25 percent to 45 percent of every health care dollar is currently spent on overhead, including administration and profits.

Prison Crowding Makes States Look to Rehabilitation
Supporters of the new legislation estimate that the $4.4 million investment will help the state put off new prison construction until 2016, rather than 2009 as estimated by officials. Texas: Texas, which is second to California in ...

The view: Children in need
By Danny Leigh
The Kids in Mind site, designed to help parents choose films for children, has a knack of getting to the heart of the sordid matter.

"Teach Your Children Well"....Or Else!
By Paul Horwitz
Estimates indicate that well over a million children are currently being homeschooled. Although homeschoolers are a diverse group, the homeschooling movement has come to be defined and dominated by its fundamentalist Christian majority...

Sanders wants guaranteed health care for all children
BurlingtonFreePress.com -Burlington,VT,USA
"We should not be proud that we are providing hundreds and hundreds of billions of tax breaks to people that don't need it and we have 9.5 million children...

Media can and should do more to protect children
Kingman Daily Miner - Kingman,AZ,USA
I don't have children of my own, so I can't begin to understand the pain that the young family must be going through over the abduction of their daughter...

Study: Children Often Meeting Online Friends
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany
A study by the Web security firm Garlik has found that 20 per cent of children aged betwee 8-15 years often meet up with friends they met on the Internet...

Prisons' budget to trump colleges
San Francisco Chronicle

No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding...

Let Children Be Children
By Judy Rabin(Jim Horn)
Because of the rigors and threats of No Child Left Behind, schools are desperate to increase their scores. As the requirements become more stringent, we have completely lost sight of the children taking these tests...