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September 30, 2005A Synthesis of 20 Years of Research on the Boys & Girls Clubs
Public/Private Ventures | Youth | After-School Programs | Publications P/PV recently launched a multiyear study to understand the role that Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of early adolescents. Beyond Safe Havens, a prelude to the larger study,...
Estimating the Scope of Services and Cost to End Homelessness in LA
Published by The LA Economic Roundtable. This power point presentation is a primer on the number of homeless persons in LA County, types and costs of services needed, resources of homeless persons, and their housing needs. Information is given on:...
September 29, 2005
Science commentary stresses need for collaboration at local level in HIV-prevention studies
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Clinical trials of drugs intended to prevent HIV infection in high-risk populations must be developed and carried out in close collaboration with the local communities and national governments of the countries in which they are...
Housing for Storm's Evacuees Lagging Far Behind U.S. Goals
From NYT > National: A month after Hurricane Katrina left thousands homeless, FEMA has placed just 109 Louisiana families in temporary homes. Read more from this post....
Failing To Deliver: Administration's Medicaid Waiver Policy Excludes Many Katrina Survivors and Provides No Guarantee of Full Federal Financing
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: The Administration has come out against bipartisan Senate legislation (S. 1716) introduced by Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Max Baucus (D-MT) that would provide temporary, fully federally funded Medicaid coverage to low-income survivors...
Katrina Survivor Turns to Valium, Alcohol to Ease Mental Woes
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Beer and Valium are the drugs of choice for Tom Leynes, 49, who is trying to ward off depression after losing his house and job in Hurricane Katrina. Read more from this post....
'No Child' Rules to Be Eased for a Year
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Under pressure from hurricane-stressed states, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced yesterday that the agency will for one year relax academic accountability standards under the administration's...
Child Care Assistance Policies 2005: States Fail to Make Up Lost Ground, Families Continue to Lack Critical Supports
From 2001 to 2005, it became more difficult for low-income families to get needed child care assistance, according to two new reports released by the National Women’s Law Center. An examination of child care policies in the 50 states and...
Groundbreaking Forum Explores Fate of American Dream; Business, Government Leaders Gather to Find Solutions for Education and Workforce Crisis
From Ascribe Newsfeed: On Sept. 19-20, top corporate, education and workforce policymakers came together to address the failure to prepare the nation for the demands of the knowledge-based, global economy of the 21st century. Through a dynamic, interactive forum, town...
September 28, 2005
Is rural Canada a good place to grow old?
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: The experiences of rural seniors in Canada have provided researchers in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta with valuable information that will be used in the development of policies governing a...
Violence Against Women Act Has Strengthened Communities and Provided Critical, Life-saving Support to Victims of Violence
From U.S. Newswire Releases: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record this afternoon in support of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which was approved by the House today: Read more from...
Census Bureau Philadelphia Office Survey Gauges Household Wealth
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Beginning in October, field representatives of the U.S. Census Bureau will visit 45,000 randomly selected households nationwide to conduct the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a continuous survey launched more than 20 years ago....
Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between 13 and 21
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Twelve-year-olds whose parents smoked were more than twice as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13 and 21 than were children whose parents didn't use tobacco, according to...
September 27, 2005
Physicians Find Improved Operational Efficiencies in BCBS Programs; Partnerships Selected by Harvard Medical School Researchers Give Physicians More Time to Focus on Patient Care
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Doctors are spending less time on administrative duties and more time with patients as a result of their participation in four programs created by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. Read more from this post....
Why Did I Ignore Charter Schools?
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Charter schools -- tax-supported schools independent of their local school districts -- have become an important part of the education story in America. At The...
Gang injunctions give communities short-term relief, study shows
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In the first study examining how civil gang injunctions affect community members, researchers at UC Irvine and the University of Southern California have found that injunctions provide short-term benefits, such as reducing residents' fear of...
Report Details Growth in Illegal Migration
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: The number of new illegal immigrants to the United States surpasses the number of authorized immigrants from 1999 through at least last year, according to...
Stop Alcohol-Fueled Sports Violence!
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Alcohol-fueled violence at professional sporting events is ruining America's favorite pastimes, and unsafe alcohol serving practices are part of the problem. The Marin Institute urges you to take action. Read more from this post....
Unwed mothers are less likely to marry, study shows
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Unwed mothers are significantly less likely to marry; when they do marry, they are less likely to improve their socioeconomic status through marriage than their childless counterparts, says a Cornell University study. The results have...
September 26, 2005
Smoking may increase risk of diabetes
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Smoking may increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. Read more from this post....
Medicaid Categorical Eligibility Rules are Proving a Major Obstacle To Getting Health Coverage to Impoverished Katrina Victims in Louisiana
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: New information from Louisiana demonstrates that substantial gaps in health care coverage are emerging among impoverished Hurricane Katrina survivors in that state. The information, gathered by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals...
Joint Center Health Policy Institute Launches Initiative to Reduce the Root Causes of Health Disparities
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Katrina victims underscore need for stronger social safety net Read more from this post....
New NH Roadmap on Underage Drinking Says Everyone Must Pitch In
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: A new report, "Recommendations for Success: New Hampshire's Strategy to Reduce Underage Alcohol Problems," makes New Hampshire one of the first states in the nation to lay out a single state strategy on the...
NASADAD Calls for Education, Coordination in Wake of Disasters
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: The public needs to know that addiction problems will increase in the aftermath of natural and manmade disasters, and relief efforts aimed at addiction issues need to be coordinated with state substance-abuse agencies. NASADAD...
Red Cross Directs Shelters to Allow Addiction Counseling
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Red Cross officials issued a letter saying that emergency shelter managers "must allow substance abuse counselors to enter the shelters in order for people with substance-abuse problems to receive appropriate counseling." Read more from...
Youth At Risk: SIECUS Attacks Abstinence, Says Abstinence Clearinghouse
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Today at the annual Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) "Back to School" briefing, the pro-contraceptive sex education organization will once again spread distortions and deceptions about abstinence education, says the Abstinence ......
September 25, 2005
College Students Provide Fresh Fruits, Vegetables for WIC Participants
From Ascribe Newsfeed: At 7 a.m. on Tuesday mornings, 14 first-year students at Hampshire College begin harvesting fresh organic produce on the college farm, which they then box and deliver to Greenfield, a town about 20 miles from campus, for...
What the news and the movies leave out: Behind the scenes of disaster aid
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: The hurricane that devastated the Gulf Coast and the tsunami that ravaged southeast Asia was the stuff one expects to see in overblown movies, not on the nightly news. Peter Walker, PhD, director of the...
New nutritional challenges emerge for HIV care providers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Nutritional therapy for HIV-infected patients is shifting focus. Drug treatments designed to combat the HIV virus have improved, decreasing some nutritional problems, while bringing others to light. As researchers from the Nutrition/Infection Unit in the...
High blood pressure has stronger effect on mental function in blacks
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Not only does high blood pressure adversely affect mental functioning, but the correlation appears to be stronger among African-Americans than among whites, researchers report in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Read more from this...
Address To Coalition of Bankers and Advocates at Financial Links for Low-Income People (FLLIP) Awards Luncheon
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Michele Latz, director of the Division of Financial Institutions at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, will address over one hundred leaders in the financial education and asset-building movement at the Financial Links for...
As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income
From NYT > National: Wake County's effort to integrate schools economically has led to drastically improved test scores, officials and parents say. Read more from this post....
Katrina Causes Wave of Addiction Problems
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Hurricane Katrina displaced thousands of people with addictions from their support networks, added strain on people who may have been walking the line between moderate use and addiction, and put millions at risk of...
Troubling trends converge
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers at the University of Chicago describe three cases of rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal Staphylococcus aureus infections in small children. The infection caused severe sepsis, rapid clinical deterioration and bleeding into the adrenal glands,...
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation Prevention Grants
From Substance Abuse Funding News: Up to $9.6 million over three years is available to tobacco-prevention programs through the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation. Read more from this post....
National League of Cities Media Availability to Discuss City Leaders Response to Hurricanes
From U.S. Newswire Releases: What: Media Availability to discuss affects of hurricanes on children and families Read more from this post....
Violent crime in US stays at historic low: report (Reuters)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Reuters - Reports of violent crime in the United States in 2004 stayed at the lowest level since the government began compiling statistics 32 years ago, but males, youths and those of more than one...
'Mothering the Mother' During Childbirth, and After
From NYT > National: Doulas - part mentors, part hand-holders - are increasingly offering their childbirth services to low-income teenagers. Read more from this post....
September 22, 2005
Study Links Teen Depression to Drug Use, Sex
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Teens who use drugs or are sexually active are more likely to become clinically depressed later on, according to a report from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Read more from this post....
Mass. Recovery Advocates Rally in Boston
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: About 250 recovery advocates marked National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month with a rally at Boston's City Hall and a meeting with lawmakers at the State House. Read more from this post....
September 21, 2005
Survey of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Houston Area Shelters
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: To give voice to people whose lives have been devastated by the hurricane, this unique survey from The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examines how evacuees are...
America's Second Harvest Network Prepares For Hurricane Rita; Amidst Continued Katrina Relief All Along the Gulf Coast, Texas Food Banks Ready Resources For Impact
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Now a powerful category 5 storm, Hurricane Rita is gaining strength in the Gulf - an ominous sign to weary residents of communities still reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. While the storm's track may...
September 20, 2005
Learn How to Use an Indicator Reporting Program to Reduce Alcohol and Drug Problems in Your Community
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Join Together announces the release of the 2005 edition of our popular publication, How do we know we are making a difference? A community alcohol, tobacco, and drug indicators handbook. Read more from this...
Ministers work toward viable mining communities
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Federal, provincial and territorial mines ministers from across the country gathered today for the 62nd Annual Mines Ministers' Conference in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Read more from this post....
Closing Doors on Americans' Housing Choices
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Foundation Center Takes Spanish-Language Fundraising Training Across the Country; Instruction Dedicated to Nonprofits Serving Latino Communities
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Campaign for Youth Issues Considerations for Youth and Communities Impacted by Hurricane
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Linda Harris. This collective response from a coalition of national policy and advocacy organizations draws attention to the needs of the vulnerable youth impacted by Hurricane Katrina and makes a set of...
Payrolls up moderately, but slack persists despite low unemployment
From Economic Policy Institute: EPI's Jobs Picture explains why, despite moderate payroll growth and a small improvement in the official unemployment rate in July, this problematic labor market still has considerable slack, especially when compared to prior recessions and recoveries....
The Hefty Penalty on Marriage Facing Many Households with Children
From The Urban Institute: Over the past seventy years Congress has enacted dozens of tax and transfer programs, giving little if any attention to the marriage subsidies and penalties that they inadvertently impose. Although the programs affect both rich and...
Researchers link childhood asthma to exposure to traffic-related pollution
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: This study focuses on children's health and the burden of pollution from cars and trucks. University of Southern California researchers found that the closer children live to a freeway, the greater their risk of diagnosed...
Officials Lower Tally Of 'Missing' Children
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Authorities trying to track down more than 2,600 children in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama still missing three weeks after Hurricane Katrina believe that most...
We the People: Blacks in the United States has been published by The US Census Bureau.
This new report provides statistics on African-Americans in the US. Topics include: employment, earnings/income, age, marital status by sex, nativity and citizenship, the poverty rate, origin of foreign born African-Americans, gender, education attainment, housing tenure, occupations and more. These topics...
Closing Door on Choices: On-site Tests Find Racial, Disability Discrimination in Housing Market
From The Urban Institute: Newspapers and TV commentaries have been buzzing with alarm about skyrocketing housing prices. But for many Americans, spiraling home prices and rents aren't the only barriers to housing. Discrimination -- by landlords, real estate agents and...
Turning the Lights On from Coast-to-Coast; Cities Nationwide Gear Up for National Afterschool Rally
From U.S. Newswire Releases: From the courthouse in Moultrie, Georgia to the Children's Museum in Pittsburgh to the Houston Zoo, afterschool programs are lining up fun and exciting venues for the sixth annual Lights On Afterschool. Each October, hundreds of...
Alcoholic Teens May Suffer Brain Damage
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: A new study finds that teenage alcoholics have smaller-than-average regions of the brain that are involved in complex thinking and emotional control. Read more from this post....
Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: To give voice to people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing floods, The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a unique survey...
September 19, 2005
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Launches Program to Train Latino and Non-Latino Psychologists to Meet Critical Shortage, Address Complex Mental Health Needs of Latinos in the U.S.
From Ascribe Newsfeed: To meet a critical need for culturally-sensitive mental health services for Latino populations, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) is launching one of the first programs in the country designed through immersion in Spanish language...
New Orleans' health care might never be the same (USATODAY.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: USATODAY.com - The city's health system of public and private hospitals, clinics and individual medical practices is among the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Read more from this post....
Minnesota Join Together Keeps Advocacy Alive
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Although Minnesota Join Together's funding ended last year, the coalition continues to work on a volunteer basis to advance policies that keep alcohol out of the hands of young people. Read more from this...
For investors with a conscience, options grow
From Christian Science Monitor | Work/Money: With $10,000, ethically minded investors can help fund budding companies devoted to community development. Read more from this post....
BRAVE program - Help available for children with anxiety
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A pioneering University of Queensland (UQ) research project will help children overcome extreme anxiety. Read more from this post....
Preschool children display innate skill with numbers, addition
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Psychologists at Harvard University have found that five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without the formal education or language to express this knowledge in words. The discovery of these inborn...
In Everybody's Best Interests: Why Reforming Child Support Distribution Makes Sense for Government and Families
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Vicki Turetsky. More than 17 million children are served by the public child support program-but many never see the funds collected on their behalf. Instead, collections are used to recoup the public...
Should Impending Upper-Income Tax Cuts be Implemented While Katrina Costs Mount and Other Domestic Programs May be Cut?
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Robert Greenstein, Joel Friedman, and Isaac Shapiro Read more from this post....
Sent to live far from home, children learn how to fit in (USATODAY.com)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: USATODAY.com - Among Hurricane Katrina's more than 1 million survivors are an estimated 372,000 children whose homes and schools were damaged or destroyed. Since the devastating strom hit three weeks ago Monday, schools closest to...
September 16, 2005
Teacher quality important for at-risk children
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: High quality teachers who are emotionally supportive can have a positive effect on at-risk children, and reduce their academic and social problems. A large-scale study exposed at-risk children to classrooms of high instructional quality and...
Spouses in bad marriages face greater risk for serious health problems
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Spouses in a poor marriage are more likely to be stressed during the workday, a finding that could mean a greater likelihood of strokes and heart disease for both husband and wife, according to researchers...
Key strategy to limit managed care drug costs failing, survey shows
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: With rising concern over the cost of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit program - going into effect January, 2006 and estimated to cost $593 billion over the next decade - a new UCSF study...
National study shows black immigrants' health erodes the longer they live in US
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Black immigrants from Africa arrive healthier than those from Europe, and their health erodes the longer they live in the US. Sociologists at Rice University and the University of California, Irvine say this suggests that...
Researchers discover how compounds prevent viruses from entering cells
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Compounds called defensins -- known to prevent viruses from entering cells -- appear to do so by preventing the virus from merging to cells' outer membrane, according to a study by researchers at the National...
Kraft Introduces 2 Somewhat Healthier Cookies Made of Whole Grains
From NYT > Health: In the efforts of food companies to appease nutrition advocates and serve an increasing number of health-conscious consumers, Kraft Foods has crossed an improbable threshold - a healthier cookie. Read more from this post....
If New Orleans Is a Blank Canvas, Many Are Poised to Repaint
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans has gone retro -- way retro. It is, in a fundamental sense, as it was long ago, 287 years ago,...
Health Premiums Rise 6.6%
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Health insurance premiums for federal employees and retirees will rise an average of 6.6 percent next year, the lowest increase in nine years, the Bush...
Purdue scientists treat cancer with RNA nanotechnology
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Using strands of genetic material, Purdue University scientists have constructed tiny delivery vehicles that can carry anticancer therapeutic agents directly to infected cells, where they are able to halt viral growth or cancer's progress. The...
Key neural system at risk from fetal alcohol exposure
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In a study of adult monkeys who were exposed to moderate amounts of alcohol in utero, scientists have found that prenatal exposure to alcohol - even in small doses - has pronounced effects on the...
Downward mobility quadruples risk of depression in men, but not women
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Downward mobility hits men far harder than women, quadrupling their risk of depression, finds research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Read more from this post....
New Kaiser Medicare Q&A Column distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This weekly column prepared by the Kaiser Family Foundation is being distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune beginning mid-September. The column will answer questions from readers related to the new Medicare drug benefit. This week's question: Read...
miRNAs and musculature
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In an effort to understand the biological function of the microRNA mir1, Drs. Nicholas Sokol and Victor Ambros (Darmouth Medical School) have studied the expression profile, transcriptional regulation and loss-of-function phenotype of Drosophila mir-1 (Dmir-1)....
Resources Related to Health Coverage and Hurricane Katrina
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: As part of the Kaiser Family Foundation's commitment to help respond to the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, you will find resources related to an ongoing effort to monitor and study the health coverage and needs...
Michael Mazerov Revised 9/1/05 Summary: 60K-HTML, 14pp. Full report: 1090K-PDF, 94pp. Statement By Robert Greenstein On Administration Mischaracterizations Regarding The Economy And New Data On Poverty, Income, And Health Insuran
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Medicaid and SCHIP Retention in Challenging Times: Strategies from Managed Care Organizations
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Pat Redmond Read more from this post....
Bush Pledges Federal Role in Rebuilding Gulf Coast
From NYT > National: President Bush said the government would provide help on taxes, housing, education and job training for the hurricane victims. Read more from this post....
Report: High-Growth Occupations Within Reach for Many Low-Skilled U.S. Workers; Report Identifies Workforce Development Strategies for Job Growth, Especially Among Minorities, Immigrants, Low-Income Americans
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Good parenting in kindergarten increases chances of good kids in fourth grade
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Early parent-child relationships are important to establish strong communication and monitoring in later childhood years. A study involving 267 children from strong family backgrounds concluded that a parent-child relationship based on warmth and understanding reduces...
Physically abused children highly distracted by anger
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Research has shown that physically abused children are attuned to noticing signs of anger and threat. This study examined how both abused and non-abused 4-year olds were able to focus and control their attention when...
Environment, not genes, key in family relationships
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Nature or nurture? In terms of family relationships between adolescents and parents, new findings suggest that nurture may play a larger role. A study of 674 families with same-sex adolescent siblings examined the factors that...
Warm, nurturing parents have well-adjusted adolescents
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new study of 186 adolescents across a six-year period found that warm parenting at an early age foreshadows whether children will have behavioral problems as adolescents. The study evaluated how well adjusted children were,...
Determining causes of long-term effects of harassment
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In a new study of 381 children, the long-term effects of peer harassment on teens, such as anxiety and depression, were found to be related to the increase or decrease of peer victimization between fourth...
Study: Abused children stay highly attuned to anger
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Even the subtlest hints of anger or hostility in their environment sets physically abused children on prolonged 'alert', even if a conflict has nothing to do with them. Read more from this post....
Former Prisoners Returning to Chicago Lack Services, Support
From The Urban Institute: For recently released prisoners, finding jobs and housing while avoiding criminal activity are keys to staying out of prison. Now a new Urban Institute report finds that where former prisoners settle after their release also influences...
Can Financial Literacy Enhance Asset Building?
From The Urban Institute: Even when incentives to save and invest are strong, many low- and moderate-income families lack the basic knowledge to manage their income wisely, build wealth, and avoid excessive debt. This brief examines financial literacy research and...
September 15, 2005
Chicago Communities and Prisoner Reentry
From The Urban Institute: "Chicago Communities and Prisoner Reentry" is part of "Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry," a multistate research initiative exploring ways to improve reentry outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. This report is the latest...
Popular kids more likely to smoke than less popular classmates
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Warning: Popularity may be hazardous to pre-teens' health. According to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, popular students in 16 Southern California middle schools were more likely to become...
Welfare Reform in Los Angeles
From MDRC: Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and neighborhood conditions improved in Los Angeles during a period of economic growth and welfare reform. However, most welfare recipients still remained poor, the concentration of poverty increased, and those who worked were...
Expert Offers Tips to Help Children Cope With Katrina's Devastation
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States Are Decoupling From The Federal "Qualified Production Activities Income" Deduction
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Elizabeth McNichol and Nicholas Johnson Read more from this post....
September 12, 2005
Should States have More Control Over Head Start?
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Danielle Ewen. [Opinion] Some of the reauthorization debate has focused on whether to expand state control over the program-but a better question is, How can Congress raise Head Start's quality and availability?...
Medicaid Spending on Foster Children
From The Urban Institute: This policy brief presents the first national analysis of Medicaid health care spending on children in foster care and children adopted from foster care. Data from the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) document that states expended...
Briefing and Materials Related to Health Coverage and Hurricane Katrina
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured held a briefing with Ruth Kennedy, Medicaid deputy director of Louisiana, and others on health coverage in states affected by Hurricane Katrina. Background data on health coverage...
Calif. Study Finds Tobacco Use Popular in Niche Populations
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Korean men, gays and transsexuals, and U.S. Marines all share one thing in common: an above-average fondness for smoking. Read more from this post....
Cost Savings from Alcohol Intervention for Trauma Patients
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: A recent study lends support to broader implementation and funding for alcohol screening and intervention efforts in emergency departments and trauma services. Read more from this post....
Brain Receptor for Marijuana Also Responds to Alcohol
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Researchers say a new animal study shows that cannabinoid receptor sites in the brain also seem to stimulate the reward and pleasure responses to alcohol. Read more from this post....
'Fire Water' and Firefighters
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: The head of the International Association of Fire Chiefs says that events for firefighters should not include public drinking -- a statement that goes against fire-department tradition, to say the least. Read more from...
Survey Finds Little Change in U.S. Drug Use
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Relatively few Americans admit to being regular users of marijuana, and fewer than one in 20 say they recently used drugs other than marijuana -- rates that have not budged much over the past...
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Takes 'Conversations with the Community' Series to Asian & Hispanic American Communities in Washington & Oregon
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ken Mehlman will travel to Kent, Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 13, to deliver remarks at an Asian American roundtable. It will be the Chairman's first Asian American Conversation with the Community....
Why the Senate Higher Education Bill Is Good News For Low-Income Adults-And How to Make It Even Better
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Julie Strawn and Amy-Ellen Duke. On September 8th, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously approved S. 1614, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Among the bill's...
Baby Born to Brain-Dead Mother Dies After Five Weeks
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Susan Anne Catherine Torres, whose mother was declared brain dead but kept on life support machines for three months so she could be born, died...
September 06, 2005
Low-Income Working Families: Facts and Figures
From The Urban Institute: The vast majority of low-income parents are working but still struggling to make ends meet. This fact sheet shows how low-income working families have much in common with other American families as they seek to balance...
September 05, 2005
This Labor Day sees continuation of off-kilter economic expansion
From Economic Policy Institute: EPI's Labor Day Briefing Paper, An Off-Kilter Expansion, examines a variety of economic indicators to illustrate that, despite the fact that measured unemployment is historically low, there is still much slack in the job market. Data...
September 04, 2005
Key Resources on Health Coverage and the Uninsured
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. Census Bureau's released its annual update on health insurance coverage and the number of uninsured Americans on August 30, 2005. Access a wide range of Kaiser Family Foundation reports and analyses on health...
September 03, 2005
Federal Aid Is Offered to Schools
From NYT > Washington: The federal government will ignore deadlines facing school systems in gulf states on some federal financing programs. Read more from this post....
Institutions without walls still institutions, says mental health researcher
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Mental health researcher Dr Lorna Moxham continues to find that people with mental illness may be de-institutionalised but often remain under institution-like conditions. Read more from this post....
Study holds promise for new way to fight HIV
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers have confirmed for the first time the benefit of an innate defense system present in the few patients who remain healthy after years of infection with HIV despite receiving no treatment, according to an...
Tracking Poll Finds Seniors Now Split on Medicare Drug Benefit
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking survey shows seniors now as likely to view the Medicare drug benefit favorably as unfavorably, with modest progress in knowledge about the new benefit. Read more from this post....
USA Today/Kaiser/Harvard Health Care Costs Survey
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This comprehensive public opinion survey and related USA Today articles explore how Americans are being affected by health care costs. Read more from this post....
Patients treated with respect more likely to follow medical advice
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Attention doctors: Want patients to follow your advice? Treat them with dignity, a Johns Hopkins study has found.In a national survey of more than 5,000 Americans, those who said they were treated with dignity during...
Shame More Likely than Guilt to Lead to Addiction
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: People who feel badly about themselves are more likely to fall into alcohol or other drug abuse than those confronted with feelings of guilt. Read more from this post....
Early Drinking Increases Later Risky Behaviors in Urban Youth
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Study results confirm the dangers and prevalence of early alcohol use, which suggests that screening and prevention programs must begin well before the teenage years. Read more from this post....
Health Groups Request Billions for Smoking Cessation
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Health groups that joined the federal racketeering lawsuit against the tobacco industry this week requested that cigarette firms be forced to spend billions on smoking-cessation programs. Read more from this post....
SAMHSA Funds for Medication Research
From Substance Abuse Funding News: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has made $4 million available to fund pilot clinical studies on alcohol and other drug abuse. Read more from this post....
Study finds mixed results on teen sexual behavior from abstinence-only intervention
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Abstinence-only education can influence teen sexual behavior and beliefs, according to a study from Case Western Reserve University.This community-based evaluation reveals that abstinence-only intervention can influence knowledge, beliefs and intentions, and among sexually experienced students,...
Online Giving Continues at Record Pace as Donors Respond to Hurricane Katrina Disaster
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Online giving continues to surge, nearly doubling day-over day this week, as donors respond to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, reports Convio, Inc. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many nonprofit organizations are setting new single-day records for...
Single Sales Factor Formula for State Corporate Taxes: A Boon to Economic Development or a Costly Giveaway?
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: In a number of states, business representatives are lobbying aggressively for an arcane change in tax law that could dramatically reduce state taxes on the profits of many multistate corporations. Corporate interests are...
HUD Secretary Seeks Urgent Action from the Nation's Mayors; U.S. Conference of Mayors Assess National Housing Stock for Victims of Hurricane Katrina
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson has called on the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) to assist in the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina. Read more from this post....
'You Wonder Why It Didn't Kill a Million'
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Mississippi is running dangerously low on fuel and medical personnel, and faces a looming housing crisis for tens of thousands of people, officials said four...
Returning Home Illinois Policy Brief: Health and Prisoner Reentry
From The Urban Institute: This research brief discusses the health challenges faced by male prisoners being released to Chicago, Illinois. Three out of ten survey respondents reported having a chronic physical or mental health condition, but it is likely that...
Returning Home Illinois Policy Brief: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Mobility
From The Urban Institute: The growth in the number of persons released from incarceration and returning to communities has sparked great interest in the topic of prisoner reentry, and specifically in strategies to increase the successful reintegration of formerly incarcerated...
Returning Home Illinois Policy Brief: Employment and Prisoner Reentry
From The Urban Institute: Finding employment is one of the most important reintegration challenges ex-prisoners face after release, and one that can have a significant impact on their chances of remaining crime-free. Prior research shows that finding and maintaining a...
Does Making Work Pay Pay?
From MDRC: Four programs that supplemented the earnings of low-income adults increased employment, earnings, and income - particularly for the most disadvantaged - but these effects generally faded after the programs ended. Read more from this post....
Psychology Professor Offers Parents Ways to Talk About Hurricane Aftermath With Children
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Pelosi: Compassion No Substitute for Food, Water, Shelter, a Job, Education for Children
From U.S. Newswire Releases: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi held a news conference in the Capitol this afternoon after the House held a special session to pass a $10.5 billion emergency supplemental spending bill for disaster relief for victims of...
Statement By Robert Greenstein On Administration Mischaracterizations Regarding The Economy And New Data On Poverty, Income, And Health Insurance
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: 8/31/05 Read more from this post....
Houston Center Helps Parents Find Children (AP)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: AP - In the midst of trying to find her husband and three youngest children, hurricane Katrina survivor Lisa Stewart temporarily lost her three oldest children in the cavernous Astrodome. Read more from this post....