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Activists Call on Congress to Extend Home Visiting Program for Parents, Children Before September Expiration

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Advocates say they are concerned a critical program for parents of young children will expire soon without Congressional action. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more.

Read the full story at: https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-08-11/pennsylvania-advocates-push-for-congress-to-reauthorize-home-visit-programs-for-kids-and-parents

(Original air-date: 8/22/22)

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.