This is the billboard in North Carolina inspired by Senator Cornyn.
Submitted by robchristensen on 2013-09-20 10:50
Americans for Prosperity (click here) said Friday that it is planning a billboard campaign in the Research Triangle and the Piedmont Triad questioning Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's stance on the issue of carbon emissions tax....
What Senator Cornyn doesn't bother noticing about his fellow Senator from North Carolina is a cause that has needed to be addressed for as long as Cornyn has been in office.
Hagan pushes infant mortality legislation
Submitted by robchristensen
2013-09-24 10:22
Sen. Kay Hagan Tuesday (click here) touted two bills designed to reduce infant mortality by improving screening of new borns and the training of those who care for new babies.
"As a mother, I can not imagine the pain of losing a child, especially when that death may have been easily prevented,'' Hagan, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families, said in a teleconference call from Washington.
One measure, that Hagan co-sponsored with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, and Democrat Diane Feinstein of California, reauthorizes a program to provide training for child care providers on CPR, first aid, and other safe practices....
Senator Kay Hagan is Carolina Blue through and through which means chidlren are at the center of her concerns.
In North Carolina in 2011: (click here)
- 7.2 babies died for every 1,000 born alive
- 5.5 white babies died for every 1,000 live births
- 5.4 Latino babies dies for every 1,000 live births
- 12.9 African American non-Hispanic babies died for every 1,000 live births
- 866 babies died in North Carolina
- 2008 - preliminary date for the U.S. shows 6.6 deaths for every 1,000 babies born alive
In 2010, North Carolina ranked the 15th highest infant mortality rate in the 50 United States at 7.1 deaths per 1000 infants born, Mississippi was Number 1 in infant mortality at 9.67. 16.1 % of citizens in North Carolina live in poverty.
Poor Children: 24% (525,983) of children live in poor families (National: 22%), defined as income below 100% of the federal poverty level.
For 2011, (click here) the federal poverty level is $22,350 for a family of four. Children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level are referred to as poor. But research suggests that, on average, families need an income of about twice the federal poverty level to meet their basic needs. The United States measures poverty by an outdated standard developed in the 1960s.
She doesn't stop at advocating for children. She seeks to assist our heroes into the benefits they deserve.
Fayetteville Observer
By Greg Barnes
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (click here) said Tuesday that she has sent letters to the secretaries of defense and veterans affairs demanding that more be done to relieve the backlog of veterans benefits claims.
Hagan, a North Carolina Democrat, acknowledged that progress is being
made to relieve the backlog at the VA’s Winston-Salem Regional Claims
Office, but she said “we can all agree that there is still work to be
done.”
This is the second time this year that Hagan has written to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki urging faster claims processing in Winston-Salem, which serves most veterans in North Carolina.
In a March letter, Hagan called the situation “deplorable” and urged Shinseki to send senior-level staff members to the Winston-Salem office to get results....
And jobs are at the top of Senator Hagan's list:
September 6, 2013
By John Ostendorff
This is the second time this year that Hagan has written to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki urging faster claims processing in Winston-Salem, which serves most veterans in North Carolina.
In a March letter, Hagan called the situation “deplorable” and urged Shinseki to send senior-level staff members to the Winston-Salem office to get results....
And jobs are at the top of Senator Hagan's list:
September 6, 2013
By John Ostendorff
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (click here) told workers at research
equipment maker Thermo Fisher she was disappointed that Congress allowed
automatic spending cuts this year.
The sequester, as the cuts are known, required government researcher National Institutes of Health to cut 5 percent from its budget, hurting companies like Thermo Fisher that make some of the products it uses.
North Carolina lost $50 million in funding for academic research, she said on Friday, meaning a loss of about 1,000 jobs....
The sequester, as the cuts are known, required government researcher National Institutes of Health to cut 5 percent from its budget, hurting companies like Thermo Fisher that make some of the products it uses.
North Carolina lost $50 million in funding for academic research, she said on Friday, meaning a loss of about 1,000 jobs....
