Congress established the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997. Proponents argued that CHIP would deliver health insurance coverage to half the nation’s 10 million uninsured children by 2000. Through Federal FY 2005, however, the program had never enrolled even 4 million children at any given time.
Economy
Don’t Fence Me In: Lianne’s Story
Family, then finances—and opportunity. Those are what brought Lianne Halpern back to tiny Shamrock, a small, dusty stop on the famous Route 66 in the Texas panhandle. Like generations of Americans before, Lianne and her family had traveled west along that route in search of the golden promises of California. Lianne’s father worked in the...
January 29, 2026