First Family: Life in the White House

Kitchen Cabinet: Headlines for Feb. 9

Health

• Do we need a department of food? (New York Times)
• SCHIP expands mental health coverage for kids (US News & World Report)
• Children's health care bill is just the beginning (AP)

Education

• 'Stimulus (education) money should be spent only on programs that work well' (New York Times)
• Money isn't the problem: Improve the way education programs operate (New York Times)

Kitchen Cabinet: Headlines for Feb. 5

• Obama signs children's health insurance bill into law (Boston.com)
• Minnesota smoking ban could apply to cars with kids (Pioneer Press via Casey Center)
  
• Welfare system is 'dying a quiet death' (Mother Jones via Casey Center)

Kitchen Cabinet: Headlines for Feb. 1

• FDA announces new recalls of tainted peanut butter products (Oregonian)
• White House responds to salmonella outbreak (Consumer Reports)
• Alabama school systems turn to buyouts for relief (AP)
• Senate passes expanded Child Health Insurance Program (CNN)
• Obama promises mortgage relief for homeowners (Reuters)

Kitchen Cabinet: Headlines for Jan. 29

• Every peanut product from Georgia plant recalled
• Senate likely to pass bill on kids' health insurance
• Home-birth advocates push for change in laws
• Stimulus plan would provide flood of aid to education
• Schools' budgetary scissors cut paper