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February 28, 2006In Medicare Maze, Some Find They're Tangled in Two Drug Plans
From NYT > Health: A result of "computer glitches," the situation leaves patients at risk of being charged two premiums or incorrect co-payments. Read more from this post....
Veterans Report Mental Distress
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, according to a comprehensive snapshot...
Medical staff shortages threaten planned expansion of nation's community health centers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Shortages of physicians may threaten the planned expansion of the nation's Community, Migrant, Public Housing, and Homeless Health Centers, concludes a study released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Health Centers...
New Anti-Drug Program Shows 'Phenomenal' Success by Focusing on Positives
From Ascribe Newsfeed: A newly released study suggests that a well-designed in-school and community communication campaign really can dramatically cut marijuana and alcohol use among young teens. In a study of 32 schools in 16 communities around the country, researchers...
February 27, 2006
Mailman school researchers studying link between obesity and the urban environment
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health are studying the link between the urban environment and how it might contribute to the cause or origins of obesity. Working with various city departments, Andrew Rundle,...
The Search for Progress In the Quality and Equity of Student Outcomes
From MDRC: The Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC, now called Springboard Schools) in San Francisco, California, is a grant-making organization that supports districts' system-wide efforts to improve the quality and equity of student outcomes. This report discusses the "focal...
High-Risk Youth Grants for Communities
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) is sponsoring a $5,000 mini-grant to help community coalitions address the problems of high-risk youth. The purpose of the six-month grant is to build community...
Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Executive Summary
From Center for Law and Social Policy: This brief summary accompanies the 50-page full report detailing the experiences of 22 communities that received U.S. Department of Labor Youth Opportunity Grants to support education, work exposure, and youth development for under-served...
Child Welfare League of America to Present Champion for Children Award to Ruth Massinga
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) will present its Champion for Children award to Ruth Massinga, former President and Chief Executive Officer the Casey Family Program, at a dinner in Washington, DC on Feb. 28....
Child Welfare League of America Announces 2006 Anna Quindlen Journalism Award Winners
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is pleased to announce the 2006 winners of the Anna Quindlen Award for Excellence in Journalism in Behalf of Children and Families during its National Conference. Read more from...
February 24, 2006
Building Opportunity and Equity Into the New New Orleans
Building Opportunity and Equity Into the New New Orleans: A Framework for Policy and Action Long before the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina or the chaos of evacuation, New Orleans' social infrastructure was failing. News coverage of the overcrowded Superdome and...
February 23, 2006
New U.S. Department of Education Study Finds Strong Link Between Challenging Studies and Degree Completion
From Education Newsfeed: Completing academically challenging course work in high school dramatically increases the likelihood of a student earning a bachelor's degree, according to a new U.S. Department of Education study released today. The study, The Toolbox Revisited: Paths to...
February TV Show to Focus on Math and Science Education, Discuss What Students Need to Compete in Global Economy
From Education Newsfeed: What skills do students need to compete in today's global economy and how can our schools help prepare them for a work world that's becoming increasingly dependent on math and science knowledge? The U.S. Department of Education's...
Tracking Poll Finds Three in Four Seniors Say They Have Reached a Decision About Whether or Not To Enroll in Medicare Drug Benefit
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: A new tracking poll finds that 45% of seniors say they have enrolled or plan to enroll in a drug plan, 29% say they do not intend to enroll in a drug plan and another...
The economic impact of local living wages
From Economic Policy Institute: Prior to the passage of living wage laws, initial studies of their impact predicted high costs to local governments, employers, and consumers, as well as a loss of jobs for low-income earners. But the most reliable...
Bush's Tax and Budget Policies Fail to Promote Economic Growth
From Economic Policy Institute: The economic evidence is clear: the president's tax changes have not worked to improve the health of the economy. Business investment, employment, and wages have all underperformed similar periods in the past. A new report by...
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
From MDRC: An MDRC evaluation of Moving Up, a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and move up in the labor market, found that the program had little effect on...
Final 2006 Budget Bill Cuts Services to Abused and Neglected Children
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Casey Trupin, Vicki Turetsky, Rutledge Q. Hutson. On February 8, 2006, President Bush signed into law the 2006 federal budget bill, which includes provisions to decrease federal funding for a range of...
Reform or Dismantling? President's Workforce System Proposal Raises Serious Concerns
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Evelyn Ganzglass and Abbey Frank. President Bush's 2007 budget proposal calls for drastic reduction in funding for training and employment services and the consolidation of Workforce Investment Act and Employment Service programs...
How New Donors Are Changing the Philanthropic Equation
AEI - Short Publications From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform. Yet while...
The Health Disparities Myth
AEI - Short Publications A new monograph by Jonathan Klick of Florida State University and AEI's Sally Satel, The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (AEI Press, 2006) found no evidence to support the idea that racially biased doctors...
Affluent, but Needy (First Suburbs)
Affluent, but Needy (First Suburbs) As they grow and change, the nation's first suburbs, Nassau County included, show signs of stress ahead. The problems of America's older, inner-ring first suburbs, Nassau County being among the most prominent, are finally beginning...
Making Sense of Charter Schools
RAND | Occasional Papers | Making Sense of Charter Schools: Evidence from California The debate over charter schools often appears to be driven by theory and ideology, with little information on how the reform itself is affecting students. This occasional...
Wall Street Journal: We Must Change Policy Direction
Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Media Center: Wall Street Journal: We Must Change Policy Direction In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, LISC Chairman Robert E. Rubin advocates new economic policies designed to make America more solvent and competitive. An Excerpt:...
HUD Announces Nearly $25 Million in 'Sweat Equity' Grants
HUD News Release 06-021 NEW ORLEANS - More than 1,500 families will realize their American Dream with a little elbow grease and $24.8 million in grants announced today by Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Pamela Patenaude. HUD is awarding...
Tax Refund Loans Cost Low-incomeWorkers Cost $900 Million in Unnecessary, Unjust Fees
Children's Defense Fund WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cashing in on the promise of a quick fix, millions of low-income American workers paid more than $900 million in unnecessary fees and excessive interest when they filed their taxes in 2004 to expedite...
Study: Cap Tax-Loan Fees
Community Media Workshop: Newstips - Study: Cap Tax-Loan Fees Efforts to regulate tax refund anticipation loans are being bolstered by a new report detailing the cost of such loans to working families in Illinois. Refund anticipation loans are marketed aggressively...
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project: Results from the South Carolina ERA Site — Overview Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is known about how to help them and other low-wage workers keep...
Initial Health Policy Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Possible Next Steps
Initial Health Policy Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Possible Next Steps News coverage of the overcrowded Superdome and the city's flooded streets exposed the poverty and vulnerability of many residents, especially African Americans. As New Orleans begins to rebuild, can...
Grassroots and Groundwork - Call for Presentations
Call for Presentations / NWAF Poverty is complex. Working to reduce poverty is tough and complicated. That’s why communities all across the country are using systemic approaches to attack poverty at its roots. In September 2006, the Northwest Area Foundation...
February 16, 2006
Medicare at Forty
Medicare at 40: Looking Back, Moving Forward When Medicare was enacted in 1965, more than half of elderly Americans were uninsured. Seniors lost their health insurance when they retired, and private insurance companies were reluctant to provide coverage to them....
Young People to Mobilize Against Failed Abstinence-Only Programs
Young People to Mobilize Against Failed Abstinence-Only Programs at Home and Abroad WASHINGTON, DC (February 13, 2006) At a time when the President's FY2007 budget requests significant increases for failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs at home and abroad, Advocates for Youth is...
Confronting Censorship of Condom Education with Nationwide Contest
Advocates for Youth and Sex, Etc. Confront Censorship of Condom Education with Nationwide Contest WASHINGTON, DC (February 14, 2006) Marking both Valentine's Day and Condom Awareness Week, Advocates for Youth and Sex, Etc. announced the winners of the first Respect...
HUD creates new, expanded hurricane Disaster Voucher Program
HUD News Release 06-017 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the $390 million supplemental appropriation President Bush signed recently to replace and expand its current rental assistance program that aided families who lost their...
HUD awards $29 million to improve housing and service programs for low-income families, the homeless and persons with HIV/AIDS
HUD News Release 06-020 WASHINGTON - Local communities around the country will be better able to house and serve low-income persons because of nearly $29 million in technical assistance grants announced today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson....
Lowered Expectations for Seniors' Participation in Medicare Part D Program
Families USA: Bush Administration Lowers Expectations for Seniors’ Participation in Medicare Part D Program Washington, D.C. -- A report released today found that the vast majority of new Medicare Part D beneficiaries already had prescription drug coverage before the program...
February 15, 2006
Children in the South face higher health risks
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Children living in the South are up to three times more likely to battle poor health and its consequences - including obesity, teen pregnancy and death - than those in all other regions of the...
Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience
From Center for Law and Social Policy: This brief summary accompanies the 50-page full report detailing the experiences of 22 communities that received U.S. Department of Labor Youth Opportunity Grants to support education, work exposure, and youth development for under-served...
National Organizations Expose Lack of Planning for Children Struggling in Katrina's Aftermath
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Today, four national organizations held a press conference to expose the unmet needs of children affected by Hurricane Katrina and to call on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish an office which will be...
Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Building Delivery Capacity in Distressed Communities
From Center for Law and Social Policy: In 2000, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded significant Youth Opportunity (YO) Grants to 36 high-poverty urban, rural, and Native American communities. The grants were designed to serve all young people in these...
February 14, 2006
Administration's Rural Housing Budget Disappointing
Housing Assistance Council: Information and Publications - Press Room Washington, Feb. 14, 2006 - The federal budget released on February 6 is disappointing for those who believe that the lowest income rural Americans deserve decent, affordable housing, according to a...
San Francisco-Based Nonprofit Develops Students' Academic Skills and Social Responsibility
From Ascribe Newsfeed: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Saturday March 18, from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., students from 35 Northern California middle and high schools will converge on San Francisco State University for the Bay Area's...
Many new immigrants to US change diet -- and not for the better
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Coming to the land of milk and honey can be hazardous to new immigrants' diet and health. So says Ilana Redstone Akresh (pronounced AY-kresh), a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at...
Civil partnerships likely to boost health of gay and lesbian people
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Gay marriage could boost the mental and physical health of gay and lesbian people, suggests an analysis in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Denmark was the first country to introduce civil partnerships for...
February 13, 2006
A Little Household Help May Reduce Health-Care Costs Among Elderly
From Ascribe Newsfeed: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Older people who do not have help for daily tasks such as dressing and bathing are much more likely to be hospitalized for acute illness than older adults who...
Doing What Counts - Teacher Quality in Student Success
From MDRC: The most significant factor affecting students' learning in the classroom is the quality of their teachers. Yet a central paradox of American education is that students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who arguably most need well-qualified and experienced teachers, are...
Rules of Medicare Drug Plans Slow Access to Benefits
From NYT > National: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 --- Doctors and pharmacists say many drugs theoretically covered by the new Medicare drug benefit are not readily available because of insurers' restrictions and requirements. Drug plans require doctors and patients to obtain...
Hotel Aid Ends; Katrina Evacuees Seek Housing Again
From NYT > National: NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13 --- Thousands of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina became transients again on Monday, wheeling their entire lives onto the street on luggage carts or dragging bulging garbage bags through hotel lobbies, when the...
Poverty trumps race to explain poor prostate cancer outcomes
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Socioeconomic factors predominantly explain racial and ethnic disparities in prostate cancer outcomes, according to a new study. Whether these differences are due to race, racial or other factors, such as socioeconomic status and treatment, remain...
Medicare Drug Benefit: Enrollment Update, New State-Specific Data, Webcast
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This enrollment update breaks down and explains the statistics related to enrollment under the new Medicare drug benefit and the separate low-income subsidy program that provides additional assistance. The enrollment update summarizes the latest enrollment...
February 11, 2006
Women and Children Last - Again: An Analysis of the President's FY2007 Budget
National Women's Law Center The Administration's budget moves in a direction that decreases economic security and reduces opportunity, especially for already vulnerable Americans such as low-income women, children and the elderly, the National Women's Law Center said today. NWLC has...
Why Problems Like Homelessness may be Easier to Solve than to Manage
The New Yorker: PRINTABLES Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. Murray Barr was a bear of a man, an ex-marine, six feet tall and heavyset, and when he fell down---which he did nearly every...
February 10, 2006
Close-Knit Neighborhoods May Help Prevent Childhood Obesity
RAND | News Release | RAND Study Finds Close-Knit Neighborhoods May Help Prevent Children from Becoming Overweight Adolescents living in close-knit neighborhoods where adults provide social support -- such as watching out for youngsters and seeking to correct their misbehavior...
President Requests $27 Million Budget Boost for Failed Abstinence-Only Programs Amidst Deep Cuts for Essential Programs
President Requests $27 Million Budget Boost for Failed Abstinence-Only Programs Amidst Deep Cuts for Essential Programs In the context of a budget that slashes spending for essential programs, from nutrition to health care to education, the $27 million increase for...
Lower Costs of Medicare Drug Coverage to Help States Save $700 Million in 2006
2006.02.09: Lower Costs of Medicare Drug Coverage to Help States Save $700 Million in 2006 The states will send more than $700 million less to the federal government in 2006 because lower drug costs and strong competition have reduced the...
Welfare Reform Reauthorized
2006.02.08: Welfare Reform Reauthorized Today, President George W. Bush signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which reauthorizes the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program administered by HHS' Administration for Children and Families (ACF). "The reauthorization of the TANF...
HHS Proposes $689 Billion Budget for Fiscal Year 2007
2006.02.06: HHS Proposes $689 Billion Budget for Fiscal Year 2007 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt released today details of President Bush's FY 2007 budget request to Congress for the department, which meets the agency's most important priorities while exercising fiscal discipline...
HUD budget increases in programs will help homebuyers, renters and homeless
HUD News Release 06-013 WASHINGTON - Expanding programs to increase homeownership, to provide rental assistance, and to assist the homeless are among the highlights of President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget unveiled today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary...
Nutrition Program Changes in the President's Budget
FRAC News - Nutrition Program Changes in the President's FY 2007 Budget The President's FY 2007 budget proposals fall far short of the investments required to meet the health, education and nutrition needs of America's vulnerable families, children and elderly....
Children's Defense Fund Partners with Local Faith and-Community-Based Organizations and Coalitions to Provide Free Tax Filing Sites
Children's Defense Fund The VITA sites are part of the D.C. Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) campaign --- a citywide, cross-sector initiative that educates D.C. taxpayers, particularly those with low incomes, about issues related to income taxes and economic security....
Early Look at Restructuring in California
WrestlingDetails.pdf (application/pdf Object) WASHINGTON -- February 9, 2006 -- The vast majority of California districts with schools facing restructuring -- the No Child Left Behind Act's ultimate sanction for struggling schools -- are forgoing the law's more radical options, such...
Catholic Charities USA Troubled by President's Budget Impact on Nation's Poor and Vulnerable
Catholic Charities USA - News and Info Catholic Charities USA, which represents one of the nation’s largest private networks of social service providers, today voiced its concern over proposed cuts to critical health and social service programs contained in the...
February 09, 2006
Long-term poverty affects mental health of children
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Children in low-income families start off with higher levels of antisocial behaviour than children from more advantaged households. And if the home remains poor as the children grow up, antisocial behaviour becomes much worse over...
White House Unveils Anti-Drug Policy
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: DENVER -- The Bush administration on Wednesday unveiled its 2006 anti-drug program, a campaign that encourages more high schools to screen students and urges teens...
N.Y.U. Plans Mental Health Center for Children
From NYT > Health: New York University plans to build what it says will be the nation's largest pediatric mental health center to treat thousands of children and train thousands of doctors, and Gov. The centerpiece will be a $110...
President Bush Praises Work of Health Centers Cites New Government Web Site that Gives Health Centers Top Rating
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- President Bush today praised the accomplishments of Community Health Centers at a press conference aimed at highlighting his FY 2007 Budget. The President called the health centers program "something that is working," and touted...
February 08, 2006
Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics Draws Recruits, and Criticism
From NYT > National: Recruiting Latinos has become one of the Army's top priorities but recruitment goals face challenges from skeptical communities. In Denver and other cities where the Hispanic population is growing, recruiting Latinos has become one of the...
Doctors fail to recommend colon cancer tests for low-income patients
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Fewer than nine out of 10 low-income, medically underserved minority patients at risk for colorectal cancer receive a recommendation for colorectal cancer screening by physicians at government-supported community health centers, according to a study by...
Gap widens between black/white kids' asthma hospitalizations and death
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Fifty percent more black children than white children are hospitalized for asthma, and 25 percent more black children than white children are dying from asthma, according to a report in the February issue of Journal...
Parents who fight may harm children's future emotional development
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: How parents handle everyday marital conflicts has a significant effect on how secure their children feel, which, in turn, significantly affects their future emotional adjustment. "A useful analogy is to think about emotional security as...
Reading and behavior problems intertwined in boys
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: It's been known for more than a decade that children with reading problems, particularly boys, also tend to have behavior problems, and vice versa. Now researchers from King's College London and the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Social first graders more likely to become good readers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Does he comfort other children when they are upset? If so, say a silent thanks --your child's prosocial skills may predict good reading skills by the third grade. That's the finding from a study published...
Children's distress over parental conflict continues over time
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Fighting with your spouse in front of your kids, or even ignoring each other, leads to negative thoughts and distress in your kids about your marriage and family today and even one year later. That's...
HIV Risks Reduced When Mothers Teach Daughters About Disease
From Ascribe Newsfeed: CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Low-income African American teen girls in Chicago continue to be at high risk for contracting HIV, but the risk decreases when their mothers teach them about the dangers of the disease,...
PCCY Exec. Dir. Says Rendell Budget Plan is Great for Kids and for Pennsylvania's Future
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Edward G. Rendell's proposed budget for 2006-2007, Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth executive director Shelly Yanoff hailed the spending plan as "great for the children of the Commonwealth - and also a great move to...
Justice Department Reaches Settlement Regarding Conditions at the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with the State of Hawai'i regarding civil rights violations in the juvenile justice facility, the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua, Hawai'i, operated by the Hawai'i Department of...
Teen Girls Using Pills, Smoking More Than Boys
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Teenage girls, having caught up to their male counterparts in illegal drug use and alcohol consumption, now have the dubious distinction of surpassing boys in...
February 07, 2006
Bush Plan Would Trim Survivor Benefits
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: If approved, the two proposals would save a combined $3.4 billion over the next decade, according to administration estimates. Any attempt to reduce Social Security benefits --- no matter how small --- could face intense...
VA Budget Request 2007: The 'Good, the Bad and the Foggy,' Says the American Legion
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- President Bush's VA budget request for 2007 has been hailed for adding nearly $3 billion in real appropriations for veterans health care, compared to 2006. However, he added, it's a budget request built on...
President's Proposed Budget Underfunds Housing and Community Development Programs
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Don Cameron, President of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), had the following comments regarding the President's proposed Fiscal Year 2007 budget: Following last week's State of the Union address, NAHRO expressed concern...
The President's 2007 Budget: A Preliminary Analysis
The President's 2007 Budget: A Preliminary Analysis, 2/6/06 An administration's budget is a statement of its priorities. This budget's priorities are clear: it features cuts in numerous domestic programs that serve low- and middle-income families alongside continued --- and substantially...
Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School
Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School - Publication by Harvard Family Research Project - HFRP This new comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to understanding how to engage families in after school programs is a critical...
Expanding the Advanced Placement Incentive Program
Expanding the Advanced Placement Incentive Program -- February 2006 Expanding access to advanced placement programs would provide more disadvantaged high school students the opportunity to take challenging courses so that they will enter college or the global marketplace ready to...
Secretary Spellings Discusses AP Incentives and Competitiveness
From Education Newsfeed: Birmingham --- U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today visited Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Ala., with Governor Bob Riley. She discussed President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative, a comprehensive new plan to ensure that American students and...
Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Request Advances NCLB Implementation and Pinpoints Competitiveness
From Education Newsfeed: Washington --- President Bush today announced a FY 2007 Department of Education budget request that reaffirms his historic commitment to close the achievement gap among our nation's students and provide a quality education for every child. The...
February 06, 2006
Meth Straining Emergency Rooms Nationally, Surveys Say
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A pair of new surveys demonstrates the pernicious effect that methamphetamine abuse is having on hospital emergency rooms across the country, the New York Times reported Jan. 18. Hospitals nationally are reporting increased...
Education: A Leaner Year Is Proposed for Schools
From NYT > Washington: WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 --- Although President Bush called in the State of the Union address for a major new commitment to improving math and science instruction, his budget for the coming year would cut the Education...
American Public Health Association Dismayed With President's Proposed Budget,
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) said today that President Bush's fiscal year 2007 budget puts the health of millions of Americans at risk with proposed cuts to invaluable disease prevention and health promotion...
Passage of Federal Medicaid Relief Bill a Starting Point, Not End of Debate on Urgent Need to Adjust State Medicaid Rate
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- The Louisiana Nursing Home Association (LNHA) today said that while gratified of last week's passage in Congress of Medicaid relief for Louisiana patients and providers, it represents simply a starting point for a state...
Alcohol Biggest Concern of Community Coalitions
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Two-thirds of community anti-drug coalitions say that alcohol is a major problem they face, compared to 59.3 percent citing marijuana, 51.3 percent that cited tobacco, and 32.9 percent who named methamphetamine, according to...
Bush slashes domestic programs, boosts defense (Reuters)
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: With congressional elections looming in November, the fiscal 2007 blueprint came under swift attack from Democrats, who said elderly and working Americans would bear the brunt of Bush's fiscal mismanagement. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting...
NCOA Opposes Cuts and Reorganization of Older Worker Program
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- The President's budget proposal includes a $44 million cut and radical restructuring of the nation's only job training and placement program specifically designed to help older workers -- the Senior Community Service Employment Program...
Toward a Decade of Indifference: Administration Budget Ignores Child Care Needs of Working Families
From Center for Law and Social Policy: Research clearly demonstrates that child care assistance is critical to help low-income working families succeed and to support their efforts to find and afford quality child care settings that foster the well-being and...
February 05, 2006
Rival Visions Led to Rocky Start for Drug Benefit
From NYT > Health: The complex Medicare benefit requires intricate coordination among insurers, beneficiaries and state and federal agencies. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, was an effort to blend a classic big government program from the Great...
Police Endorse Anti-Drug Group
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- A New York organization committed to fighting the drug problem in communities, workplaces, and schools recently made its first local impact by providing Daleville, Ala., police with information that led to a drug seizure....
Funding for Town Hall Meetings on Underage Drinking
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A 12-agency coalition, the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD), along with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), is calling for state and community town-hall meetings to...
To an ethical investor, growth doesn't always lead to happiness
From Christian Science Monitor | Work/Money: Everyone -- from presidents to the common investor - likes growth. But not all growth buys happiness, according to Adam Seitchik, chief investment strategist for Trillium Asset Management, and Karen Shapiro, shareholder advocacy associate...
After Welcoming Evacuees, Houston Handles Spike in Crime
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: HOUSTON -- The southwest corner of this city is one sprawling low-rise apartment complex after the next, a once-hot real estate area that died with...
February 03, 2006
Evaluations, Assessment Resources Now Available Online
Evaluation: Overview Evaluation is an important way that Irvine advances its mission. With rising interest in foundation impact and effectiveness, Irvine increasingly looks to evaluation to inform learning, enhance accountability for the use of its resources, and achieve impact. Importance...
Luring Business Developers into Low-Income Areas
The New York Times reports on how LISC and other organizations are using New Markets Tax Credits to bring business development to underserved communities. When the low-income housing tax credit was created in 1986, it took years for developers, investors...
February 02, 2006
Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: About five percent of deaths from SIDS in African Americans can be traced to defects in one gene. Half of those deaths result from a common genetic variation that increases an infant's risk of developing...
Secretary Spellings Announces Details on President's State of the Union Education Initiatives
From Education Newsfeed: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today released "Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World: Strengthening Education for the 21st Century," the department's policy details outlining the education components of the President's American Competitiveness Initiative and other...
HHS Issues One-Month Progress Report on Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today released a one-month progress report on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit that takes a hard look at what is working and what needs to improve. The report details action steps HHS and health plans are...
Top Black Professionals Raise Concerns About National Drug Policies and Their Impact on African Americans
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Houston, TX - Members of a Blue Ribbon Commission convened by the National African American Drug Policy Coalition held public hearings to investigate and develop recommendations on the racial disparities in substance abuse policies...
Alcohol Risk Factors Differ for Men and Women
From Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco News: Women and men appear to have different genetic and environmental risk factors for alcoholism, Reuters reported Jan. 24. A quartet of new family studies on alcoholism show, for example, that while both sexes are...
Medicinal herbs popular choice for babies and kids among WIC clinic clients
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Nearly half of the low income, nutritionally-vulnerable Latino children surveyed by Penn State researchers in WIC clinics were treated with herbs by their caregivers for common ills such as diaper rash, colic, teething symptoms, stomachaches,...
Medical debt draining Kansans' resources, threatening health care access
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new report documents that many lower-income Kansans face unaffordable medical bills, resulting in overwhelming debt that severely impairs their financial stability. The report, "Playing by the rules but losing: How medical debt threatens Kansans'...
Teens' healthy food choices foiled by early lunch, soft drink machine income and parents who cater
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Penn State researchers have identified three previously unreported factors that foil the efforts of high school students to make healthy food choices -- early lunch, school income from soft drink incentives, and parents who bring...
The Homeless Find a Heart in Motown
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- From the start of the preparations for the Super Bowl Detroit officials had serious concerns about the growing income gap in the area that shows up as homelessness. Dozens of organizations that HAND represents...
February 01, 2006
New Ready4Work Progress Report
Each year in America, 750,000 prison inmates, including 150,000 juveniles, are released from secure detention facilities and returned to their communities. In 14 U.S. cities and 17 local sites, the Ready4Work ex-prisoner reentry initiative is confronting these problems head-on. This...
Family Involvement Storybook Corner
Family Involvement Storybook Corner at FINE - Family Involvement Network of Educators - at the Harvard Family Research Project The Storybook Corner offers resources to help educators, families, and those who work with families promote the awareness, discussion, and practice...
Harnessing Technology in Out-of-School Time Settings
Harnessing Technology in Out-of-School Time Settings - Snapshot at the Out-of-School Time website - at Harvard Family Research Project Harvard Family Research Project's series of Out-of-School Time Evaluation Snapshots distills the wealth of information compiled in our Out-of-School Time Program...
Rural Gulf Coast Gets New Hurricane Relief Funds
Housing Assistance Council: Information and Publications - Press Room Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 27, 2006 - Five grants announced today will help community-based organizations to repair homes and develop new affordable homes for people living in rural places damaged by...
UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers disagree with a prominent Colorado attorney's contention that talk of a national and global epidemic of obesity is exaggerated. Writing in the February 2006 issue of...
Market Incentives Could Promote Better Nutrition Among Food Stamp Recipients
From Ascribe Newsfeed: In a peer-reviewed research perspective, Miner proposes policy changes for two agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture - the Food Stamp Program and the Farm Services Agency. The former provides money for food without promoting healthy...