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April 30, 2006Funding for Research on Reduced-Exposure Tobacco Products
From Funding News: The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Cancer Institute will award grants of up to $200,000 for research on the efficacy of so-called 'reduced-risk' tobacco products, both smoked and smokeless. Read more from this post....
Environmental tobacco smoke linked to behavior problems in children and pre-teens
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with behavior problems in children and pre-teens. "This study provides further incentive for...
Internet use involves both pros and cons for children and adolescents
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: According to the latest research presented in a special issue of Developmental Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), spending a lot of time on the Web can have both negative and positive effects...
Study shows racial/ethnic disparities in medical/oral health status and care for minority children
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Minority and multiracial children experience many disparities in medical and oral health status, access to care, and use of services, according to a new national study by researchers at the Center for Advancement of Underserved...
National Study Reveals Distinctive Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Medical/Oral Health Status and Care for Minority Children
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Minority and multiracial children experience many disparities in medical and oral health status, access to care, and use of services, according to a new national study by researchers at the Center for Advancement of Underserved Children at...
Pennsylvanians Bring Message to Harrisburg - Don't Shortchange Children!
From U.S. Newswire Releases: (debug: no -- landmark) Read more from this post....
Latino Catholics Increasingly Drawn To Pentecostalism
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: LOS ANGELES -- When Fabiola Briones entered a Pentecostal church for the first time, she was in crisis, recently divorced and bitter from abuse she...
April 27, 2006
Alcohol Use Among Low-Income Pregnant Latinas
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Some research suggests that the prevalence of heavy drinking among Latinas of childbearing age may be increasing. This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for alcohol consumption during pregnancy among 100...
Cultural approach holds the key to tackling obesity, says Yale research
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Health professionals need to use more than tape measures and scales to define and tackle obesity, according to a paper in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. A research review carried out by Maryanne Davidson...
Seniors' Early Experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This April 2006 tracking poll finds that most seniors enrolled in a Medicare drug plan are satisfied with their plan and are not having trouble getting the drugs they need. Medicare beneficiaries must sign up...
Marijuana Treatment Succeeds with Mix of Therapies
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A mix of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and motivational incentives appears to be effective in treating patients with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Researchers from...
Study Sees Link Between Movies, Teen Smoking, and Tobacco Profits
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) claim that Hollywood portrayals of smoking lead to billions of dollars in sales for tobacco companies. Researcher Stanton Glantz of UCSF's Center for...
'Alcohol Awareness' Faith Community Inserts Available
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: During April (Alcohol Awareness Month), Mid-America ATTC is offering a faith community bulletin or newsletter insert sheet that can be downloaded free by churches, temples, mosques and other faith groups. Read more from...
Evacuees Find Housing Grants Will End Soon
From NYT > National: Thousands of hurricane evacuees who counted on a year of free housing and utilities are being told by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that they are no longer eligible for such help and must either pay...
Low intake of milk during pregnancy linked to decreased birth weight
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal gives expectant mothers yet another reason to drink their milk. Researchers found that women who rarely drank milk during their pregnancy gave birth to smaller...
New survey finds rising numbers of uninsured in moderate and middle income American families
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Two of five (41%) working-age Americans with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 a year were uninsured for at least part of the past year--a dramatic and rapid increase from 2001 when just over one-quarter (28%)...
April 26, 2006
Medicare Rule Guarantees Continuity of Drugs
From NYT > Health: Under a new policy in the prescription drug program, insurers that drop coverage for a drug must exempt beneficiaries who already take it. Read more from this post....
Girls have big advantage over boys on timed tests
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: New research attempting to shed light on the evergreen question -- just how do male and female brains differ? -- has found that timing is everything. Read more from this post....
Protect America's Kids from Alcohol - Sign the Get Serious Petition
Take Action: Protect America's Kids from Alcohol Over 5,000 young people die each year from alcohol-related causes - a sobering problem. Meanwhile, most elected leaders, influenced by alcohol industry lobbyists and contributions, have done little to prevent this tragedy. It's...
April 25, 2006
Facts Contributing to the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
CPP_FactSheet.pdf The Cradle to Prison Pipeline(SM) can be reduced to one simple fact: the United States of America is not a level playing field for all children. The largest driving force of the pipeline is poverty, exacerbated by race. At...
April 24, 2006
11 staff positions open for YouthBuild Katrina Rebuilding Project
YouthBuild USA : Latest News YouthBuild USA recently received a one year grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service to fund a project to help build or rebuild up to 300 homes in the small community of North...
HUD to sell homes at a discount to disaster victims
HUD News Release 06-046 In an effort to assist families displaced by the Gulf Coast Hurricanes attain homeownership, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will give evacuees the opportunity to buy HUD-owned properties at a discount. These families will...
April 23, 2006
Social networks protect against Alzheimer's
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Having close friends and staying in contact with family members offers a protective effect against the damaging effects of Alzheimer's disease according to research by physicians at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Researchers studied...
Raising Awareness About Kidney Failure During National Minority Health Month
From U.S. Newswire Releases: WHAT: Congressional staff briefing and evening reception to raise awareness about kidney failure, risk factors, and the importance of prevention and education to coincide with National Minority Health Month (April). Sponsored by Kidney Care Partners and...
American Dream Under Fire - Movie Addresses Need for Preserving Nation's Mobile Homes, Communities
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The video documentary, produced by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Housing Preservation Project and Twin Cities Public Television, is about Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Florida, Ohio, Vermont and virtually every state in our nation. American Dream Under...
Eight New States Chosen for State Scholars Initiative
From Education Newsfeed: Eight new states have been chosen for participation in the State Scholars Initiative, a national business/education partnership effort designed to increase the number of students who take a rigorous curriculum in high school, the U.S. Education Department...
Unmet Health Needs of Katrina-Displaced
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Working with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a group of students from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans' School of Public Health found a host of under or untreated medical and mental...
Ads for unhealthy foods may explain link between television viewing and overweight in children
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Children's Hospital Boston found that kids who spend more time watching television also eat more of the calorie-dense, low-nutrient foods advertised on television. Previous studies...
Youngest hurricane victims facing chronic illness, mental health problems
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Already displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, thousands of families in FEMA-subsidized temporary housing in Louisiana are facing a second crisis, according to a new study issued today by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public...
April 21, 2006
Americans Speak Out on No Child Left Behind
From Ascribe Newsfeed: On Monday, May 1, Public Education Network will release "Open to the Public: Speaking Out on No Child Left Behind," our second annual report that gives voice to community, parent, and student concerns about the federal No...
Preconception health care can improve the lives of mothers and babies
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Every visit to the doctor for women of childbearing age should be considered an opportunity to discuss reproductive health-- especially since more than half of all pregnancies are unintended, according to a report published today...
Wake Education Partnership Awarded Skills for Life Grant; Initiative to Support Middle School Students in Wake County, N.C., in Becoming Healthy, Productive Adults
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Wake Education Partnership has been awarded a grant from the Public Education Network (PEN) to implement the Middle Schools Skills for Life Initiative with the Wake County Public School System, Communities in Schools of Wake County and...
Calif. County Decides How to Spend Tobacco Settlement Funds
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The Shasta County Board of Supervisors in California has invited community members to a board meeting to suggest how the county should use approximately $700,000 of its $1.9 million in annual receipts from...
Florida Senator Wants 'Truth' Back
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Burt Saunders, chairman of a committee deciding health care priorities in the upcoming Florida state budget, has proposed a $57.9 million restoration of funds to the "truth" campaign to curb youth tobacco use,...
Miss. Gov. Wants to Redirect $20 Million in State Tobacco Funds
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour wants to redirect $20 million in state tobacco funds from the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi's anti-tobacco programs to four, less focused areas of health. Read more from this...
NIAAA Alcohol Research Grants
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is accepting applications for research projects under its 'Alcohol Use Disorders: Treatment, Services Research, Recovery' program. Read more from this post....
Miss. Governor Vetoes Tobacco Prevention Bill
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Mississippi Gov.has vetoed a bill that would have continued $20 million in annually state funding to a smoking-prevention foundation. Read more from this post....
New tool taps drool for clues to childhood stress
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In four separate studies of mothers and their infants, preschoolers, kids and teens, a multi-university research team has shown, for the first time, that a simple test of a little drool can provide new insight...
Bullying Keeps Overweight Kids Off the Field
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Playground taunts may seem like harmless child's play, but bullying may keep overweight children on the sidelines, making it more difficult for them to shed pounds, University of Florida researchers say. Most kids are bullied...
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Public Health School Helps Shape Future Disaster Planning by Documenting Unmet Health Needs of Katrina-Displaced
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Working with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a group of students from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans' School of Public Health found a host of under or untreated medical and mental health conditions...
Transcript of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales' Address to Employees at National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Following is a transcript of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales' address to employees at National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (Part 1 of 3): Read more from this post....
April 19, 2006
U.S. Department of Education Holds Regional Workshops for Teachers to Learn Best Practices
From Education Newsfeed: This summer the U.S. Department of Education will convene 14 Teacher-to-Teacher regional workshops for teachers to learn from fellow educators who have had success in raising student achievement, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced today. A...
Public Interest Groups Urge Congress to Extend Medicare Part D Enrollment Deadline
From U.S. Newswire Releases: With millions of Americans set to miss the May 15 cut-off date to sign up for Medicare's complicated new prescription drug program, dozens of organizations representing millions of members are calling on Congress to extend the...
New Executive Director of White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
From Education Newsfeed: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the appointment of Charles Greene as executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). From 1999 to 2002, he was president and chief...
New York Population Loss Is Linked to Cost of Housing
From NYT > National: The 1990's exodus to other states from California and from the Northeast appears to have eased since 2000, but not in metropolitan New York, a Census Bureau analysis says. The South remains a magnet for migrants,...
Fearing Backlash, Some Immigration Activists Aren't Backing Boycott
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: A panel of immigration activists said yesterday that it will not encourage workers and families to walk off the job and keep their children from...
Strategies for Increasing Participation in TANF Education and Training Activities
From Center for Law and Social Policy: The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provisions in the fiscal year 2006 federal budget will require most states to substantially increase the number of TANF recipients participating in work-related activities. As states...
Learning for Community Change: Core Components of Foundations that Learn
Chapin Hall This paper explores how foundations that invest in community change can learn more from their efforts. Learning here refers not only to the content of knowledge but also to the broad range of structures, policies, and practices through...
April 18, 2006
NWLC Report Card Finds Many States Increased Tax Assistance for Child and Dependent Care Expenses
National Women's Law Center Families in 23 states this tax season were eligible for some increased tax assistance in meeting the high costs of child and dependent care, thanks to improvements in these states' child and dependent care tax provisions...
April 16, 2006
NAEYC Develops 10 Standards for Quality Preschool and Child Care; Creates Checklist for Families
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Newswire/ -- The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is helping families make the right choice for their kids by giving them a tool to know whether child care programs, preschools, and kindergartens...
Rocky Mountain Region's Non-Whites and Poor Live Closest to Toxic Places
From Ascribe Newsfeed: In most major metropolitan areas of the Rocky Mountain West, non-whites and the poor live closest to toxic areas, according to the Colorado College 2006 State of the Rockies Report Card. In 18 of the 23 metro...
Medicaid Hurdle for Immigrants May Hurt Others
From NYT > Health: More than 50 million Medicaid recipients will soon have to produce birth certificates, passports or other documents to prove that they are United States citizens, and everyone who applies for coverage after June 30 will have...
$3.3 Million Available for Meth Prevention Funds
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A $3.3 million program from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will make grants to applicants looking to expand treatment, prevention, interventions or infrastructure development to discourage methamphetamine misuse. SAMHSA...
States Expect Less Tobacco Settlement Money in 2006
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A lack of state bond sales backed by tobacco-settlement money means that state revenues from the 1998 deal with Big Tobacco are expected to decline this year. Read more from this post....
Breaking Down Barriers Between Immigrant Families and Early Education: Project Overview and Preliminary Impressions (PowerPoint)
From Center for Law and Social Policy: by Deeana Jang and Hannah Matthews. CLASP's Breaking Down Barriers project is intended to address the barriers immigrant families face in accessing high-quality early education programs. This presentation offers background and preliminary impressions...
The night shift may lead to family nightmares
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: For some families, night and weekend shifts may strain the well-being of both parents and children. Read more from this post....
Self Harm High among Goth Youths
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Rates of self harm and attempted suicide are high within Goth youth subculture, finds a study published on bmj.com today. Deliberate self harm is common among young people, with rates of 7-14% in the UK....
April 13, 2006
Child Care Subsidies and TANF
A Synthesis of Three Studies on Systems, Policies, and Parents Over recent decades, policymakers have recognized that helping parents on welfare pay for child care is essential to help them move from welfare to work. As such, child care subsidies...
Bring LA Home! The Campaign to End Homelessness
BRINGLAHOME book This plan to end homelessness provides an overview of the problem in LA along with strategies to prevent and end homelessness in 10 years. The report examines: the nature of homelessness in LA (numbers of homeless persons, who...
April 12, 2006
Boston Stands Up for Excellent High Schools for All Students; JFF Helps Lead National Effort to Address High School Crisis
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Boston-based Jobs for the Future today announced its participation in a national campaign to address America's education crisis. STAND UP is a community- based coalition of more than 50 organizations, districts, and schools around the country,...
April 11, 2006
Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population
Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population This report is a portrait of unauthorized immigrants in the US. Examined are: demographics of migrants (how many, gender, country of origin, family composition), workforce characteristics (occupations/industries, labor participation rates, gender) trends...
"Ask the Experts" Featured Discussion on Children's Health Care
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Ask the Experts: Children's Health Care 4/4/2006 Kaiser Family Foundation Broadcast Studio, Washington, D.C. As National Public Health Week focuses on raising healthy kids in the U.S., "Ask the Experts" will explore the policy issues...
Wising Up: How Government Can Partner With Business to Increase Skills and Advance Low-Wage Workers
From Center for Law and Social Policy: This report examines one promising approach: state and local partnerships with business and industry to train low-wage workers and help them advance. For this analysis, we examined partnerships that: Involve an investment of...
April 10, 2006
More American Kids Getting ADD Drugs
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Between 1995 and 2002, five times more children were prescribed anti-psychotic drugs to treat attention-deficit disorder and other behavioral problems, the Associated Press reported March 16. In 1995, 8.6 of every 1,000 U.S....
Fighting nutrition misinformation:
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: This month the American Dietetics Association releases its newest updated position statement -- Food and Nutrition Misinformation. And it has a lot to say about the media. "In today's nutrition education world, the media is...
Can Shelter Services and Administering Alcohol Help the Homeless With Alcohol Dependence?
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Can Shelter Services and Administering Alcohol Help the Homeless With Alcohol Dependence? Alcohol dependence is common in homeless people, and treatment success is limited. Recognizing these issues, a group in Canada created a...
Classroom Teach-Ins on Underage Drinking Target Pre-Teens
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: To stop underage drinking before it starts, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has teamed up with Scholastic, Inc., to educate students in fifth and sixth grades on the dangers...
Employers Push White House to Disclose Medicare Data
From NYT > National: The White House is clashing with the nation's largest employers over their request for huge amounts of government data on the cost and quality of health care provided by doctors around the country. President Bush has...
Help for siblings of children with special needs
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Siblings of children with chronic illnesses and developmental disabilities are two to three times more likely than their peers to experience psychological adjustment problems. To address this concern, a report published in the December 2005...
Inadequate housing may contribute to poor health in immigrant farmworker families
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Many Hispanic farmworker families in North Carolina live in inadequate housing that puts them at higher risk of exposure to disease, toxins and overcrowding that can affect their psychological well-being, according to new research by...
Laura Bush, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao Announce $20M Grant to National Urban League to Expand Job Training to At-Risk Youth
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Mrs. Laura Bush, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao and National Urban League President and CEO, Marc H. Morial announced a $20 million grant extension to the National Urban League's successful "Urban Youth Empowerment Program"...
What Policymakers Can Do to Support the Educational Persistence of Dropouts
JFF KC: Making Good on a Promise Making Good on a Promise addresses a critical question: Are pathways available to help dropouts pursue an education and move toward an economically productive adulthood? This report assesses how far our society is...
Local Self-Help Housing Efforts Boosted
Housing Assistance Council Press Room Over six-hundred low-income families in 22 states will become homeowners within the next three years, relying on their own labor and local community development organizations that will receive loans from the Housing Assistance Council. Most...
April 07, 2006
What are Kids Getting into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation
What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation - at the Out-of-School Time website - at Harvard Family Research Project Building on our previous work, we are using national data to examine the many...
April 06, 2006
Closing the Aspirations-Attainment Gap
From MDRC: The national consensus is that many public high schools, especially in urban areas, are the weakest link in the American education system, plagued by high rates of school dropout, persistently low performance, and disengaged students. The hope on...
Breaking Down Barriers for Immigrant Families
From Center for Law and Social Policy: CLASP's Breaking Down Barriers project is intended to address the barriers immigrant families face in accessing high-quality early education programs. This presentation offers background and preliminary impressions from CLASP's site visits in sample...
Program on Vouchers Draws Minority Support
From NYT > National: 1,700 low-income, mostly minority students in Washington are attending 58 private and parochial schools at taxpayer expense through the nation's first federal voucher program, now in its second year. Last year, parents appeared lukewarm toward the...
The Power of Work - Comprehensive Prisoner Reentry Program
From MDRC: In a period of just 15 years, from 1980 to 1995, the number of people incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails more than tripled, from about 500,000 to more than 1.5 million. Since almost all...
Health Coverage for Low-Income Populations: A Comparison of Medicaid and SCHIP
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are often compared because they both serve low-income populations. However, the populations served, the coverage offered and the structure of these programs have differed in important...
Immigration Debate Wakes A 'Sleeping Latino Giant'
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: Drawing on fear of restrictive immigration proposals that have awakened hundreds of thousands of Latinos to political activism, organizers are using popular Spanish-language radio and...
Secretary Spellings' Prepared Testimony Before the House Committee on Science
From Education Newsfeed: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings testified today before the House Committee on Science. Following is her prepared testimony: Read more from this post....
U.S. Science Lessons Focus More on Activities, Less on Content, Study Shows
From Education Newsfeed: Washington, D.C. A video study of 8th-grade science classrooms in the United States and four other countries found U.S. teachers focused on a variety of activities to engage students but not in a consistent way that developed...
Secretary Spellings Delivers Remarks on School Choice
From Education Newsfeed: Jamaica, N.Y. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today delivered remarks at the school choice forum at the Greater Allen Cathedral in Jamaica, N.Y. She discussed public school choice options and tutoring under the No Child Left...
April 05, 2006
N.J. Parents Advocate for Nickel Tax Increase to Fund Treatment
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The Parents to Parents Coalition, a group advocating for New Jersey to raise its alcohol tax by a nickel a drink to provide more funds for addiction treatment, recently took its case to...
Tobacco Consumption Among Youth Declines, But Profits Persist
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Youth tobacco use has declined appreciably in recent years, but the trend hasn't cost cigarette companies any money. Read more from this post....
Hispanics Targeted By, Resist Alcohol Advertising
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: U.S. brewers are targeting ads and other marketing at Hispanics, seen as an island of potential growth in an otherwise stagnating sales environment. Read more from this post....
Legislation Strikes at Low-Nutrition Foods in School
From NYT > National: The days when children consume two orders of French fries in the school cafeteria and call it lunch may be numbered. A bipartisan group in Congress plans to introduce legislation on April 6th that would prohibit...
Massachusetts Sets Health Plan for Nearly All
From NYT > Health: Combining ideas from across the political spectrum, the state would be the first to require its citizens to have insurance. Read more from this post....
News Analysis: On Health Care, Massachusetts Leaders Invoke Action, Not Talk
From NYT > Health: The state's measure to create near-universal health care coverage involved the cooperation of virtually every political stakeholder. Read more from this post....
Mass. Bill Requires Health Coverage
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: BOSTON, April 4 -- The Massachusetts legislature approved a bill Tuesday that would require all residents to purchase health insurance or face legal penalties, which...
Obesity Among U.S. Women Leveling Off, Study Shows
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: The rapid rise in obesity has stalled among women in the United States, the first sign that the epidemic may be peaking, federal health officials...
"Insourcing" is not creating jobs in the U.S. economy
From Economic Policy Institute: Foreign companies are employing millions of American workers, but those companies are not creating more jobs in the United States in recent years. In fact, evidence suggests that the potential employment level in these companies has...
April 04, 2006
The Rental Housing Affordability Gap: Comparison of 2001 and 2003 American Housing Surveys
rentalgap.pdf (application/pdf Object) This report examines the gap between affordable rental housing and its supply in 2001 and 2003. Information includes the number of housing units needed by: income level, region (West, Northeast, Midwest, South) and the US as a...
MIND Your Health: May is Mental Health Month 2006
From U.S. Newswire Releases: May 2006 marks more than five decades of celebrating Mental Health Month. This year, the observance focuses on the mind-body connection through the promotion of mental wellness and overall health for all Americans, regardless of age...
April 03, 2006
Alcohol Awareness Month to Focus on Underage Drinking
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Each April since 1987, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) has sponsored Alcohol Awareness Month to encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues. This April, NCADD...
Underage Drinking Meetings Held Across U.S.
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Local communities convened about 1,200 town-hall meetings across the U.S. this week to raise awareness about underage drinking and spur action to address the problem. Funded by small grants from the federal Substance...
Many Native American Deaths Linked to Alcohol
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Five of the top 10 causes of death among Native Americans are related to alcohol abuse and dependence, according to researchers from the University of Colorado at Denver. HealthDay News reported March 27...
Big Easy's Housing in Eye of Beholder
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: The future of La. neighborhoods may depend upon scores of investors seeking to renovate flood-ravaged homes that many residents are unwilling or unable to rebuild....
Excess television may lead to extra weight for preschoolers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In a national study of more than one thousand preschool-age children, those who were exposed to more than two hours of television per day were more likely to be overweight at ages 36 and 54...
Editorial: Researchers and parents should view media as a public health issue
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: As technology becomes more advanced and communications tools more widely available, parents and researchers must examine the effects of media use that has pervaded children's lives, according to an editorial in the April issue of...
Awareness, analysis of tobacco advertising may go long way (baby) to prevent teen smoking
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Most smokers pick up the habit as adolescents, drawn to cigarettes, in part, by advertisements featuring attractive models in playful poses, or cool movie characters whose mystique is enhanced by the fact that they smoke....
Teens turn to pot after parental bust-ups
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Splitting parents who shack up with new partners can unwittingly push their children towards cannabis use. Read more from this post....
Mom's nutrition during pregnancy related to child's behavior at age three
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Children born to teenage mothers who were iron deficient early in their pregnancies were less active at age 3 than the children of iron sufficient moms, a Penn State study has shown. Read more from...
Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Now researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford's School of Medicine have found that the more time California third-graders spent in front of the tube or playing video games, the more often they asked...
Sesame Street Videos Spark Controversy
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: NEW YORK - The creators of "Sesame Street" are releasing a new line of videos Tuesday targeted for children as young as six months, outraging some child-development experts who feel no form of TV or...
Child Care Assistance Helps Families Work: A Review of the Effects of Subsidy Receipt on Employment
From Center for Law and Social Policy: Reliable and stable child care helps parents retain steady employment and reduces workplace absenteeism. Working parents with affordable, dependable child care are less likely to face child care interruptions that can result in...
Wide variety of physical activities may protect teens against risky behavior: Study
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: New research out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that physically active adolescents are not only improving their health -- they also are decreasing the chance that they will get into...
National Public Health Week
2006 NPHW In 1995, former President William Jefferson Clinton proclaimed the first full week of April as National Public Health Week (NPHW). Each year since then the public health community has focused on issues that are important to improving the...
More black, Hispanic parents dissatisfied with health care for special needs children
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Black and Hispanic parents of children with special heath care needs are twice as likely as white parents to be dissatisfied with their child's care, according to a study appearing in the April issue of...
April 02, 2006
Success Strategies for Producing Minority Scientists and Engineers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: President Freeman Hrabowski and Dr. Michael Summers of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), have published an article in the March 31 issue of Science Magazine, "Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers," that examines successful...
Young patients more likely to die in countries where health care is funded by private insurance
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Countries that have national health services easily accessible to people of all ages are more likely to have better survival rates for their teenagers and young adults (TYAs) with cancer, than are countries where individuals...
$6 Million Gift Resurrects a Boot Camp for Diabetics
From NYT > Health: When Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan opened a center focused solely on treating diabetics in 1999, the idea was simple: provide much of the care a diabetic needs under one roof --- focusing on nutrition...
"Ask the Experts" To Discuss Children's Health Care
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Join kaisernetwork.org's "Ask the Experts" on Tuesday, April 4 at 2:00 pm ET for a discussion about the policy issues facing children's health care, as National Public Health Week (which begins April 3) focuses on...
New Video and Journal Article Explore Health Care Following Hurricane Katrina
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: "Voices of the Storm: Health Care After Katrina," produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation, explores the current status of New Orleans' health care system and the difficulties individuals are having when they try to access...
Wide Range of Census Stakeholders Urge Congress to Support Administration Budget Request for Funding Census 2010 Planning, Continuation of American Community Survey
From Ascribe Newsfeed: WASHINGTON, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seventeen groups and organizations that utilize data generated by both the ongoing American Community Survey (ACS) and the decennial census are urging Congress to approve the Bush administration's FY 2007 budget...
Gross domestic income: profit growth swamps labor income
From Economic Policy Institute: Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) show that in the fourth quarter of 2005 corporate profits claimed the largest share of gross domestic income (GDI) in 37 years.1 The last time profits claimed...