Times Series on Child Support Crisis, Editorials Honored
The Times has won the first-place 1999 Aaron Price Award for its series of stories, “Failure to Provide: Los Angeles County’s Child Support Crisis,” published last fall.
The paper also won a third-place Aaron Price Award for editorials titled “A Health Gain for Kids” and “Lagging Health Insurance Effort.”
The series, written by staff writers Greg Krikorian and Nicholas Riccardi, detailed the failure of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to collect the child-support funds needed by thousands of children.
The editorials, written by editorial writer Alex Raksin, recommended that state leaders lobby the Immigration and Naturalization Service to reassure immigrants that they will not lose their opportunity to become U.S. citizens if they enroll their children in the state’s child health insurance program.
The awards will be presented Nov. 20 in San Diego by the Children’s Advocacy Institute’s Council for Children.
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