With the child tax credit, families could get as much as $300 per month per child, starting in July.
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Gov. Dunleavy withdraws order to split Alaska’s health and social services into separate departments
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives had prepared a resolution that would have blocked the order, which would have led to two departments.
‘Something pure and good’: Anchorage hospital workers step up to cuddle Alaska’s tiniest babies
A group of hospital employees has been volunteering to come in on their off time to hold some of Alaska’s tiniest and sickest babies.
Pregnant women in Unalaska brave COVID-19 and a lapse in air service to get to the hospital — 800 miles away
Health care professionals and moms say COVID-19 ratcheted up the anxiety factor of third trimester travel. Then in April, the airline that served the Aleutians with daily flights went under.
‘Most mothers don’t have to deal with this’: COVID-19 makes medical travel for pregnant women even harder
Alaska women who live in rural and remote communities usually travel to city centers to give birth. It hasn’t always been this way. And COVID-19 has made a hard trip even more daunting.
Advocates see huge increase in severe child abuse cases in Alaska during the pandemic
Alaska CARES medical director Dr. Barbara Knox described “a serious uptick in cases of abusive head trauma, serious physical abuse.”