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Axed teen pregnancy prevention programs win back federal funds [revealnews.org]

 

A federal judge in a fifth lawsuit has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, restoring grants to all 81 programs nationwide that had their funding abruptly axed last year.

U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s decision on a class action suit, issued last week, ordered the administration to handle all the applications “as if the agency had not undertaken to shorten these grantees’ federal awards.”

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting reported in July that the Department of Health and Human Services halted $213.6 million in funding for the last two years of five-year grants awarded to institutions and organizations such as the University of Texas, the city of Baltimore, the Los Angeles Public Health Department and several Planned Parenthood offices. News of the cuts came as a surprise to many of the programs.

[For more on this story by Jane Kay, go to https://www.revealnews.org/blo...-back-federal-funds/]

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