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January 31, 2005Healthcare Overhaul Is Quietly Underway (Los Angeles Times)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Emboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system...
Bush on Social Security and Clinton on Health Care: Oh, Those Devilish Details
From NYT > Washington: Some analysts say President Bush's Social Security plan may suffer the same fate as President Clinton's push for universal healthcare. Read more from this post....
U.S. Is Close to Eliminating AIDS in Infants, Officials Say
From NYT > Health: Mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V. has dropped so sharply that public health officials now talk about wiping it out. Read more from this post....
Bush Vows to Back Digital Health Records
From NYT > Health: The Bush administration renewed a pledge to finance projects intended to accelerate the adoption of computerized health records. Read more from this post....
Governor Gives Helping Hand to Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren; AARP Commends Gov. Pataki for New Law Helping Children with Health Care, Education Needs
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Today, Governor George Pataki delivered a new law to help grandparents and other caregivers caring for children. The "Caregiver Consent" law will allow parents to authorize grandparents, relatives and other caregivers to make day-to-day school and...
AIDS Alliance Praises Media Coverage on Ending Pediatric AIDS in the U.S.: But the Battle is Not Over; Harvey Statement
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Following is a statement of David C. Harvey, Executive Director, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families: Read more from this post....
"One Day I Will Make It"
From MDRC: Library-based literacy programs face serious challenges to improving adult students' participation. This study suggests programs should be prepared to accommodate intermittent participation by adult students and to connect students to social services and other supports. Read more from...
Viacom and Kaiser Launch Year Three of KNOW HIV/AIDS Campaign
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Viacom Inc. and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation announced the year-three launch of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning public education initiative Read more from this post....
New Reports on Transitioning Dual Eligibles to the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Three new reports focus on one of the biggest challenges in the implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act, the transitioning of drug coverage for individuals dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, who now get their...
Online Tools for Consumer-Directed Health Plans
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This webcast is a demonstration of the online tools intended to help enrollees in consumer-directed health plans control costs and choose quality care. Read more from this post....
Tracking Survey Assesses Seniors' Views of Medicare Drug Law
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: New data from the Kaiser Health Poll Report tracking survey provides updated trend information on seniors’ knowledge and views of the new Medicare law. Read more from this post....
Support Success
From MDRC: Community colleges can pursue many strategies for enhancing student services, including offering "one-stop shopping," which provides students with multiple services at the same time and place. Read more from this post....
New Study Shows a Rise in Enrollment of Families Triggered Medicaid Spending Growth, But Medicaid Spending Grew at a Slower Rate than Private Insurance Spending
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: A New Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured funded study published in Read more from this post....
Estimating Financial Support for Kinship Caregivers
From The Urban Institute: In this brief we examine levels of receipt for government payments that children in kinship care are eligible to receive. We find that children's receipt of financial assistance is still low given their eligibility. Many, if...
January 29, 2005
Deductibility of State and Local Taxes
From The Urban Institute: Some have called for eliminating the itemized deduction for state and local income and property taxes as part of tax reform. This Tax Facts column looks at the states most affected by the current deduction and...
Latest Global HIV Media Campaign
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: On Thursday, January 6th Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India oversaw a meeting of top media leaders from across the country at his residence in Delhi to discuss media's role in addressing HIV/AIDS. This first...
States Can Decouple From the "Qualified Production Activities Income" Deduction
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Federal "Business Activity Tax Nexus" Legislation: Half of A Two-Pronged Strategy To Gut State Corporate Income Taxes
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January 28, 2005
Heart Disease News From Harvard Women's Health Watch
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Only a few years ago, most of what we knew about heart disease, the number one killer of women, came from studies in men. More recent research, though, is uncovering new information about the sex differences...
Hewlett-Packard, Applied Materials, Stanford University to Sponsor League of Women Voters of California Gala for Voter Education
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Hewlett-Packard, Applied Materials and Stanford University are among the sponsors for the Democracy Dinner, a gala affair on April 22 at The Fairmont San Jose to benefit The League of Women Voters of California Education Fund and...
January 27, 2005
60 Companies Plan to Sponsor Health Coverage for Uninsured
From NYT > Health: In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options. Read more from this post....
Next American City Decries 'Limousine Libertarianism'; Editor Warns of Danger of Ideological Approach to U.S. Housing Needs
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Hudson Institute: New Drug Approval Process a Victory for Poor AIDS Patients
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Hudson Institute's Center for Science in Public Policy declares the new FDA expedited drug approval process a victory for poor AIDS patients. Read more from this post....
January 26, 2005
High-Tech Alliance on Base for a Digital Health Network
From NYT > Health: Eight of the nation's largest technology companies have agreed to embrace open technology standards as the building blocks for a national health information network. Read more from this post....
Affordable Housing Set-Aside Ordinance Gains Committee Hearing on Wednesday, January 26
From U.S. Newswire Releases: On Wednesday January 26, the "Affordable Housing Set-Aside Ordinance" co-sponsored by twenty-four aldermen will be heard in the City Council's Committee on Housing and Real Estate at 10 am in Council Chambers. Read more from this...
President Discusses Issues With Black Leaders
From NYT > National: President Bush told a meeting of African-American religious and community leaders on Tuesday that he remained committed to a proposed ban on same-sex marriages. Read more from this post....
Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
From Eureka Newsfeed: A new study suggests that a number of African Americans are distrustful of the government's role in the origin and treatment of HIV/AIDS - and that African American men who have such beliefs also have more negative...
Study Finds Youth Smoking Would be Much Lower if States Followed CDC Guidelines for Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Spending
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Jury in Ousted Priest's Trial Is Told of Child-Rape Cycle
From NYT > National: Paul R. Shanley, a defrocked priest at the center of the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, went on trial Tuesday. Read more from this post....
January 25, 2005
Taylor Middle School Receives Award of Excellence
From U.S. Newswire Releases: This morning President David Hecker of the Michigan Federation of Teachers & School Related Personnel, (MFT&SRP) AFT, AFL-CIO presented the Red School House Award to Robert J. West Middle School in Taylor. The union awards this...
Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
From Eureka Newsfeed: Jumping on that treadmill or bike is not only good for one's health, but also can help significantly reduce depression, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The first study to look at exercise alone in...
By age 6, children of overweight mothers are also prone to obesity
From Eureka Newsfeed: By age six, children of overweight mothers are fifteen times more likely to be obese than children of lean mothers. The research, at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, showed the strength of...
New Grants to Benefit Children's Health in Aberdeen, S.D., and Surrounding Region
From Ascribe Newsfeed: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing nearly $300,000 in three organizations working to improve access to dental care and primary health care for low- and moderate-income children in Brown County. The grantees are: Presentation...
January 24, 2005
Study naming hospitals in top 5% for clinical quality released by HealthGrades
From Eureka Newsfeed: A new study naming hospitals in the top five percent in the nation in clinical quality is being released today by HealthGrades, the independent healthcare quality organization. The hospitals were ranked on the death and complication rates...
Deficit-Minded Republicans Eyeing Entitlements (Los Angeles Times)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The battle to control the federal deficit is shifting ground, ever so slowly, to Social Security, Medicare and the other giant benefit programs that account for a growing share...
New Medicare Rules on Drugs Balance Access Against Costs
From NYT > Health: The new drug benefit guarantees patients access to medicines while giving insurance companies potent tools to control costs. Read more from this post....
Hypertension risk in African-Americans linked to genetics, Stanford study finds
From Eureka Newsfeed: National health records have shown that African-Americans are more prone to high blood pressure than Caucasians, but pinning down the roots of that difference has proven elusive. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have...
Nurses for Newborns Foundation Leader Featured at Jan. 26 Congressional Briefing; Discussion Emphasizes Positive Impact of Home Visitation Programs
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Next week Sharon Rohrbach, chief executive officer of Nurses for Newborns Foundation, will host a congressional briefing entitled "Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect and Improving Infant Health through Home Visitation." Rohrbach's efforts are sponsored by ......
Inhalant Abuse on Rise
From washingtonpost.com - Nation: A hidden epidemic is gaining momentum in America, experts say, with children as young as fourth-graders deliberately inhaling the fumes of dangerous chemicals from a variety of household and office products. Read more from this post....
Trends in Labor Organizing to Be Examined at New York Law School Conf.; Participants to Discuss New Organizational Tools, Techniques
From U.S. Newswire Releases: WHAT: Next Wave Organizing Conference Read more from this post....
2005 Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Kit
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: 1/18/05 Read more from this post....
January 21, 2005
Act Now to Protect Community Investments, Bank Services
We urge you to oppose these proposals. The sheer volume of comments is important! What You Can Do: Easy and Fast 1. Send an email to regs.comments@ots.treas.gov commenting on proposed regulations. 2. Enter "2004-53 Community Reinvestment Act" in the...
A Matter of Class - Educational Achievement Reflects Family Background More Than Ethnicity or Immigration
This report from RAND examines student reading and math scores in light of race, ethnicity, immigrant status and socioeconomic factors, such as parent education levels, neighborhood poverty, parental occupational status and family income. The report's findings are followed by policy...
The Evaluation Exchange For Family Involvement
Harvard Family Research Project has just released the Winter 2004/2005 issue of their "The Evaluation Exchange" periodical. The latest issue's topic is evaluating programs that promote families' involvement in children's learning and development. The new issue compiles the current knowledge...
January 20, 2005
Medicare to Expand Coverage of Heart Devices
From NYT > Washington: Officials are planning a major expansion of Medicare coverage for implantable devices that can help prevent sudden death from heart failure and certain diseases. Read more from this post....
Cancer Passes Heart Disease as Top Killer
From NYT > Health: For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans younger than 85, health officials said. Read more from this post....
Cimarron Foundation Grants $1 Million to University of Texas at El Paso's Institute for Policy and Economic Development; Funds to Focus on Improvement of Strategies, Public Policy for Regional Economic Development Programs
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Most adverse events in hospitalized children are preventable
From Eureka Newsfeed: A study by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that nearly 70,000 children hospitalized in the United States experience an adverse event each year and that at least 60 percent of these errors may...
Tufts researchers changing way Americans define success for adolescents
From Eureka Newsfeed: For 100 years, experts in adolescent development have focused on measures such as pregnancy and dropout rates and characterized the teen years as full of struggle and stress. In the first longitudinal study of 'Positive Youth Development,'...
Study shows strengths, gaps in quality of care for kids in California's public mental health clinics
From Eureka Newsfeed: A UCLA-led study of children's patient records at California's public mental health clinics identifies strengths and gaps in quality of care. For example, nearly three-quarters of patient records of children receiving psychoactive medication did not document adequate...
January 19, 2005
How Much Does an Arizona Public School Education Cost? Report Brings Transparency to Education Finance
From U.S. Newswire Releases: A new analysis of Arizona public school financing shows average total spending for an Arizona public school student is between $8,500 and $9,000. The report, co-published by the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation and the...
Optimism has fallen, divisions increased (USATODAY.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: USATODAY.com - President Bush takes the oath of office for a second time on Thursday with ambitious plans to foster democracy in Iraq and to overhaul Social Security, rewrite the tax code and limit medical-malpractice...
Road Map to a Digital System of Health Records
From NYT > Health: A group of health and information technology organizations gave the Bush administration recommendations for a health information network of digital records. Read more from this post....
Bush Nominee Wants States to Get Medicaid Flexibility
From NYT > Health: President Bush's nominee for secretary of health and human services said Tuesday that states could provide health insurance to more people if they had "greater flexibility" to reshape the Medicaid program. Read more from this post....
Statement from the Center for Community Change on Confirmation Hearing of Gov. Michael O. Leavitt to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The following is a statement from the Center for Community Change on the confirmation hearing of Governor Michael O. Leavitt to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Read more from this...
ACORN Tells Working Families: Don't Get 'RAL-Roaded', Keep More of Your Money
From U.S. Newswire Releases: This tax season ACORN wants low and moderate-income people to know that they don't have to get a Refund Anticipation Loan (RAL) to receive their refund fast. The community group says that many working people, who...
January 18, 2005
UCI professor creates formula for designing landscapes best suited for people's well-being
From Eureka Newsfeed: At $350 million, New York City's Sept. 11 memorial for Ground Zero features pools of water, oak trees and vast open space for the sun to shine through. But given the huge investment, are these carefully chosen...
Bishop Harry Jackson, Other Leaders Launch High-Impact Leadership Coalition with Moral Value Summits in Key Cities Across America, Starting with L.A. on Feb. 1; Coalition to Release Black Contract with America on Moral Value Issues on Feb. 1 in L.A.
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., a national evangelical Christian leader, launched a new national nonprofit organization today called the High-Impact Leadership Coalition. The new grassroots nonprofit organization's mission is to help educate and empower church, ......
Adult moms more affectionate with their infants: Study
From Eureka Newsfeed: Mothers who are more mature tend to display more affection towards their infants whereas teenage mothers often focus on instrumental behaviour - fixing their infant's clothes or their soother - finds a new study of maternal behaviour....
The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi Honored as National Leader in Protecting Kids from Tobacco; Group Receives 1st Ever 'Keeping the Promise' Award for Using Tobacco Settlement Funds to Reduce Tobacco Use
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids today honored The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi as a national leader in protecting kids from tobacco, presenting The Partnership with the Campaign's first ever "Keeping the Promise" Award for its...
A proverb a day may make you healthier
From Eureka Newsfeed: It's time to add to our store of proverbs with new phrases that teach us how to be healthier, says a University of Toronto researcher. In a paper published in the Dec. 2004 issue of the Journal...
January 14, 2005
Paternity Disestablishment in 2004: The Year in Review
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Paula Roberts. This memo analyzes the statutory and case law developments in late 2003 and 2004. It contains two appendices. The first appendix describes in detail the reported cases in 2004. The...
Comments Regarding Changes to the Matching Requirements in the Child Care and Development Block Grant
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Danielle Ewen and Mark Greenberg. These comments, sent to the Child Care Bureau on January 8, 2005, respond to the proposed changes to the matching requirements in the Child Care and Development...
The Flawed "Population Plus Inflation" Formula; Why TABOR's Growth Formula Doesn't Work
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: David H. Bradley, Nicholas Johnson, and Iris J. Lav Read more from this post....
Proposed Social Security reform cuts income support
From Economic Policy Institute: A key proposal by President Bush's commission on Social Security would prevent Social Security benefits from growing along with general living standards in the future. This would cause Social Security to wither away over time and...
Federal Policy for Immigrant Children: Room for Common Ground?
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Ron Haskins, Mark Greenberg, and Shawn Fremstad. This policy brief, part of the Future of Children Policy Brief Series by the Brookings Institution, offers differing views from its authors on how to...
January 13, 2005
Secondary School Principals Encouraged and Cautiously Optimistic about President Bush's High School Reform Proposal; Federal Involvement, Financial Support of High School Reform Efforts Long Overdue
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The following statement on President Bush's High School Reform Proposal was released today by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP): Read more from this post....
Martin Luther King Day 2005: A Day On, Not a Day Off; Americans Nationwide Honor Dr. King's Legacy by Serving Others
From U.S. Newswire Releases: For hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country, January 17 will be a day "on" for service-not just a day off from work-as they honor Martin Luther King Jr. by engaging in service activities for...
Bush Plans Sharp Cuts in HUD Community Efforts (washingtonpost.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: washingtonpost.com - The White House will seek to drastically shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development's $8 billion community branch, purging dozens of economic development projects, scrapping a rural housing program and folding high-profile...
Survey Finds Online Health Information Poised to Become Important Resource For Seniors, But Not There Yet
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey of older Americans found that as the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions about health and health care options, less than a third (31%) of seniors...
Revised Diet Guidelines Urge Exercise (washingtonpost.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: washingtonpost.com - Americans need to make a healthy body weight a top priority as they decide what to eat and should make time for 30 to 90 minutes of daily physical activity, the government said...
U.S. Diet Guide Puts Emphasis on Weight Loss
From NYT > Health: For the first time since the recommendations were introduced in 1980, the new guidelines emphasize weight loss as well as healthy eating and cardiovascular health. Read more from this post....
Abraham Calls on Global Community to Aggressively Address Nuclear Nonproliferation
From U.S. Newswire Releases: In a lunchtime speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham called on the global community to join in implementing a comprehensive nuclear nonproliferation strategy to address 21st century challenges....
Expert: Malaria Could Kill 100K in Asia (AP)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: AP - Malaria could kill up to 100,000 people in coming months across Indian Ocean communities devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami if authorities do not quickly move to kill mosquitoes, a health expert warned...
IFAW Rescues and Rehabilitates Hundreds of Animals Affected By Major Oil Spill in Veracruz, Mexico
From U.S. Newswire Releases: A team of wildlife experts from IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) -- http://www.ifaw.org -- are currently rescuing and rehabilitating animals affected by a major oil spill near Veracruz, Mexico. The spill occurred on Dec. 22...
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Remembers AMBER Alert Namesake; Today Nation Recognizes Amber Hagerman's Abduction and the Life-Saving Program Created in Her Memory
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Today the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is participating in a national effort to recognize the abduction of Amber Hagerman, the 9-year-old girl whose...
January 12, 2005
2005 Health Care Agenda and Election Survey
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: A new Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey finds that Americans favor malpractice reform and drug importation, but rank them low on the list for Congress and the president. Read more from this...
Child Welfare Spending during a Time of Fiscal Stress
From The Urban Institute: This brief highlights some of the findings from the Urban Institute's 2003 Child Welfare Survey. States spent at least $22 billion on child welfare activities in state fiscal year (SFY) 2002, with increases between SFY 2000...
How Did the 2001 Recession Affect Single Mothers?
From The Urban Institute: The weakening economy and job losses after late 2000 posed a tough challenge for welfare reform's employment strategy. This issue of the Read more from this post....
Added sugar displaces food groups lowering quality of preschooler diets
From Eureka Newsfeed: American preschoolers get about 14 to 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day, on average, mostly from fruit-flavored drinks, high-fat desserts and cola-type soft drinks which displace the grain, vegetable, fruit and dairy food groups and lower...
The Wallace Foundation Commits $12 Million to Help Strengthen Out-of-School Time Programs
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Vanderbilt Author: Government Should Educate Public for Stronger Democracy
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Online Health Information Poised to Become Important Resource For Seniors, But Not There Yet; Digital Divide Puts Many Seniors at Disadvantage
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Five Reasons to Learn to Forgive from Harvard Women's Health Watch
From U.S. Newswire Releases: This New Year's, an unconventional resolution may be one of the healthiest you can make-learning to forgive more easily. According to an article in the January issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch, forgiving those who hurt...
The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody
From NYT > Health: Psychologists say that most normal adults are well equipped to start a secret life and that keeping a secret is a key to healthy development. Read more from this post....
CWA Expects Bright Future for Unborn Children
From U.S. Newswire Releases: As Concerned Women for America (CWA) joins millions of pro-life Americans in remembering the tragic loss of life since Roe v. Wade led to abortion on demand 32 years ago, it looks forward to a hopeful...
4 More Bodies Found in Mudslide, Bringing Toll to 10
From NYT > National: Four more bodies were pulled from a 25-foot-deep mountain of mud and debris early today, including three children. Read more from this post....
January 11, 2005
A Snapshot of Community Indicators Development
The Association for Community Health Improvement announces the release of a Community Indicators Report that presents a snapshot of community indicators' development, use and impact across a range of topics, by weaving together presentation summaries from the Community Indicators Conference...
Supermarket Characteristics and Operating Costs in Low-Income Areas
the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty has alerted us of a new publication from the USDA. This report, based upon an examination of 32,000 supermarkets in the US that accept food stamps, explores whether poor people pay...
Nation's Health Spending Slows, but It Still Hits a Record
From NYT > Washington: At $1.7 trillion, health spending topped 15 percent of the gross domestic product for the first time, the government said. Read more from this post....
Bush's Proposals Could Lead to Overhaul in State Medicaid
From NYT > Health: Gov. George Pataki's advisers are arguing over whether he should embrace efforts to limit the federal Medicaid program, which could help alter New York's costly program. Read more from this post....
Columbia study shows depression intensifies from one generation to the next
From Eureka Newsfeed: Nearly 60 percent of children whose parents and grandparents suffered from depression have a psychiatric disorder before they reach their early teens, according to a new study published in the January issue of the Archives of General...
StudentsReview, the Largest Free Provider of Student Opinion Has Released its First Official College Rankings
From U.S. Newswire Releases: StudentsReview, described by the Washington Post as "full of youthful insider advice" (Using the Pessimist's Paradigm in College Selection -- Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002), today released its OFFICIAL college rankings, based entirely on what the students...
UPDATED: January Deadline Looms for Governor to Help Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren; 'Caregiver Consent' Law Needed
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Under current law it can be difficult for grandparents or other caregivers, who lack legal custody of the children in their care, to make important day-to-day educational and health care decisions. The "Caregiver Consent" bill, S.6818...
Justices Refuse to Consider Law Banning Gay Adoption
From NYT > Washington: The Supreme Court's decision favors Florida, the only state that prohibits gay men and lesbians from adopting children. Read more from this post....
January 10, 2005
The Interaction of Child Support and TANF
From MDRC: This study suggests that child support can be an important income source and can help welfare recipients move toward self-sufficiency. More generous distribution rules increase payment rates, but many parents still do not understand the distribution rules. Read...
How City Officials Coped With Flu Vaccine Scare: They Scrounged
From NYT > Health: Only a last-minute contribution of 10,000 doses of flu vaccine enabled the city's health department to keep its clinics running. Read more from this post....
Reservation Economic Summit - RES 2005 - Marks 35th Anniversary of BusinessSuccess for Natl Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
From U.S. Newswire Releases: This year, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) celebrates 35 years of promoting economic development and creating business success in Indian Country. NCAIED's 35th anniversary will be observed during "RES 2005" (Reservation ......
America's Changing, And So Is the Census: National Mailing of New American Community Survey Marks Historic Shift for Census Bureau
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The days of having to wait a decade for updated census figures about a changing America will soon be behind us, thanks to a new survey the U.S. Census Bureau began mailing in January to 250,000...
Later entry into Grade 1 boosts self-esteem later in life, study shows
From Eureka Newsfeed: A new study from the University of Alberta suggests it may be better to enroll your child in the first grade later than sooner. Read more from this post....
Kansas State Professor, Students Research Willingness to Engage in Various Minor Moral and Legal Violations
From U.S. Newswire Releases: There are a lot of terrible things that people do to one another. A husband kills his pregnant wife and unborn child. A woman kills another woman she met on the Internet and kidnaps an 8-month...
Supreme Court Lets Stand Florida's Gay Adoption Ban (Reuters)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a constitutional challenge to a 1977 Florida law that bans gays and lesbians from adopting children, the only such state law in the nation....
January 07, 2005
Survey to Examine Impact of Tsunami Disaster on Nonprofit Organization Funding
Commulinks of Colorado is conducting a nationwide survey to determine the projected impact of tsunami disaster relief efforts on the nation's nonprofit community. Jim Moore, general partner in Commulinks of Colorado, said, "The tsunami disaster is perhaps the largest, most...
National Urban League Contributes to Tsunami Relief; Encourages Donations to UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, Federation of Indian Associations and Red Cross
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Marc H. Morial, President & CEO announced today that the National Urban League has made a contribution to the Tsunami relief efforts and encourages support from other community and civil rights organizations. Read more from this...
January 06, 2005
CHCF Launches Coverage Expansion Resource Center
Apples to Apples: A Framework for Comparing Health Coverage Expansion Models CHCF and the Economic and Social Research Institute have created an online resource center to help policymakers and the general public compare models for expanding health care coverage. Currently,...
In Wake of Asian Tsunami, Sri Lankan Ex-Slave and Anti-Slavery Activists Call for Measures to Prevent Child Slavery; Children Left Homeless and Orphaned Facing Increased Risk from Traffickers
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Beatrice Fernando, a Sri Lankan survivor of slavery, joined with the American Anti-Slavery Group to call for increased vigilance against child trafficking in the wake of the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia. Read more from this...
Biggest clergy abuse settlement announced (USATODAY.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: USATODAY.com - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in California has announced details of the largest single settlement in the church's child sexual-abuse scandal. The diocese said that it had agreed to a $100 million...
January 05, 2005
We the People: Aging in the United States
We the People: Aging in the United States has be released by the US Census Bureau. This report describes social and economic characteristics of men and women in the US, aged 65 and older. Topics covered include age, sex ratio,...
Child Welfare Workforce and Training Resources
Looking for tools and information to build and strengthen the child welfare workforce? Visit the Child Welfare Workforce and Training Resources section of the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information website. Along with up-to-date research, reports and literature...
Study Indicates Secondhand Smoke Exposure Harms Children's Intellectual Development Says Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The following is a statement of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Director of Research Daniel E. McGoldrick: Read more from this post....
Bush's Latest Brainchild Could Be Left Behind (Los Angeles Times)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — At first glance, President Bush seems well-positioned to expand his No Child Left Behind program of academic standards, testing and accountability into the nation's high schools. Read more from...
January 04, 2005
College Alumni Say Affordability Should Be School's Top Priority
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Ruling Is Awaited on Death Penalty for Young Killers
From NYT > Washington: A Texas high school student convicted of a double murder waits on death row as the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty. Read more from this post....
Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
From Eureka Newsfeed: Stanford researchers have found that hypnosis lessened distress in young patients who must undergo painful annual exams called voiding cystourethography, or VCUG. Read more from this post....
Mayo Clinic study suggests no link between autism and immunizations
From Eureka Newsfeed: Over the past 20 years, there has been speculation about a connection between immunizations and an increase in autism. However, a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent...
Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
From Eureka Newsfeed: A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain cognitive skills, including reading, math, and logic and reasoning, in children...
Good Parent-Doctor Relationships May Improve Advice Parents Receive About Keeping Their Children Safe From Injury; Parents More Likely to Follow Advice If They Trust Their Children's Doctors
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January 03, 2005
Interactive Online Tool Provides Key Data On Medicare Advantage Plans
The Kaiser Family Foundation has releases a new online resource with current and historical national, state, and local data about Medicare HMOs and other Medicare Advantage plans, developed in conjunction with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. From The Kaiser Family Foundation:...
Kevin's Law: New Year Brings New Hope for Mentally Ill; New Legislation Significantly Improves Michigan's Mental Health Treatment Law
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Gov. Jennifer Granholm has significantly reformed Michigan's mental illness treatment law by signing Kevin's Law (SB 683-86). Cosponsors Sens. Tom George (R, 20th District) and Virg Bernero (D, 23rd District) battled for three years to better...
15-year study shows strong link between fast food, obesity and insulin resistance
From Eureka Newsfeed: Researchers have shown a correlation between fast food, weight gain, and insulin resistance in what appears to be the first long-term study on this subject. The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study by Mark...
National Press Conference on Poverty in America to Be Held for the First Time in Los Angeles Jan. 11
From U.S. Newswire Releases: January is National Poverty in America Awareness Month and each year the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) holds a national press conference focusing on poverty in America and successful grassroots solutions. For the first time,...