{"id":695,"date":"2021-04-16T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:55:31","slug":"governor-signs-leavitt-bill-expanding-assistance-programs-for-struggling-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2021\/04\/16\/governor-signs-leavitt-bill-expanding-assistance-programs-for-struggling-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor signs Leavitt bill expanding assistance programs for struggling college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jay Inslee signed into law expansion of programs to assist college students experiencing homelessness and those who were previously in foster care. HB 1166, sponsored by Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), builds upon existing pilot programs at community and technical colleges and four-year institutions. Those programs aid students with essential needs, including access to housing, laundry facilities, locker rooms, showers, technology, reduced-priced meals, and case management services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jay Inslee signed into law expansion of programs to assist college students experiencing homelessness and those who were previously in foster care. HB 1166, sponsored by Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), builds upon existing pilot programs at community and technical colleges and four-year institutions. Those programs aid students with essential needs, including access to &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesubtimes.com\/2021\/04\/16\/governor-signs-leavitt-bill-expanding-assistance-programs-for-struggling-college-students\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}