Bill would help poor children access welfare benefits

Mass Live -- Report on the bill filed by Rep. Livingstone and supported by a coalition of more than thirty organizations, including Health Care for All, Boston Children's Hospital, Greater Boston Food Bank and many others. "It take a comprehensive approach to helping those that need the help the most - kids whose parents are on some sort of public assistance," said State Rep. Jay Livingstone, D-Boston, the bill's prime sponsor. "It really tries to get at the issues that they have often in school by focusing on all the problems - nutrition, housing, healthcare - and trying to find ways to improve each of those things and also make the government more efficient." Read the story.