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May 31, 2006Connected by 25 Featured 6/1 on ABC's Nightline
Foster Care Connected by 25 Connected by 25 of Hillsborough County, Fla., will be featured this Thursday, June 1, on ABC's news program Nightline. Connected by 25 is a program that helps young adults who "age out" of foster care...
May 30, 2006
Getting San Jose Kids the Help They Need
Knight Foundation 2005 Annual Report Under the leadership of Muhammed Chaudhry, the Knight-funded Stepping Stones project of the Franklin McKinley Education Foundation in San Jose, Calif., takes a unique "hub and spoke" approach to ensure that preschool children get access...
Town Hall Meetings Tackle Underage Drinking
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: A series of more than 1,200 town-hall meetings on underage drinking held in late March and April largely succeeded in their main goal of raising community awareness about the problem of youth alcohol...
Teens, Alcoholics Big Market for Beer, Report Says
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The alcohol industry makes an estimated $22.5 billion by selling to underage drinkers and another $25.8 billion from sales to alcoholics and other problem drinkers, according to a report from the National Center...
May 29, 2006
Alcohol Costs Community Hospitals $2 Billion Yearly
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Treating alcohol addiction and related disorders cost community hospitals about $2 billion last year, according to a report from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical News Today reported May 3...
Older Men Seeking Treatment for Alcohol
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Americans ages 50 and older are more likely to seek treatment for alcohol dependence than any other drug addiction, and older men are particularly at risk of problem drinking. Many of these patients...
1 in 5 Teens Misuse Prescription Drugs
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: For the third straight year, a Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) study has found that about 20 percent of U.S. teens have misused prescription painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin, even as smoking...
May 26, 2006
HHS Approves Historic Medicaid Reform Plans in Idaho
2006.05.25: HHS Approves Historic Medicaid Reform Plans in Idaho Medicaid beneficiaries in Idaho will be among the first in the nation to have benefits designed to meet their needs based on age and health status -- changes allowed by the...
Proposal to Reform Community Development Block Grant Program
HUD News Release 06-056 Across America, there are areas of high poverty and community distress that currently receive less federal funding than more affluent communities. Funding formulas intended to measure need haven't changed since 1978 while the country has undergone...
Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help
More Young Adults Lack Health Insurance This issue: The uninsured crisis moves up the income ladder; the U.S. health system fails to measure up; and more. Young adults (ages 19 to 29) are one of the largest and fastest-growing segments...
May 25, 2006
The Effect of Specific Welfare Policies on Poverty
Policies that can Reduce Poverty Many political leaders pointed to poverty rate declines along with increases in employment and falling welfare caseloads that occurred in the late 1990s as evidence that the 1996 federal welfare reform had been a success...
NRHA Urges "Close Eye" on Changes to Medicaid in Rural Areas
Rural Policy Research Institute - Issue Brief The National Rural Health Association, a non-profit association that has been advocating for rural health issues for nearly 30 years, has long been aware that rural areas experience higher rates of poverty, fewer...
May 24, 2006
Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers
Jobs For the Future Around the country, innovative community colleges are playing a larger role in helping low-skilled adults gain the valuable skills and credentials that are the gateway to family-supporting careers. Breaking Through, a multi-year demonstration project, promotes and...
New Study Shows How Kids' Media Use Helps Parents Cope
Kaiser Family Foundation Electronic media is a central focus of many very young children's lives, used by parents to help manage busy schedules, keep the peace, and facilitate family routines such as eating, relaxing, and falling asleep, according to a...
Premiums and Cost Sharing Features of Medicare's New Prescription Drug Program
premierbenbrief.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Medicare drug benefit that Congress created in 2003 aims to provide more private plan options for senior and disabled beneficiaries in Medicare, with increased payments to attract sponsors and to support added benefits attractive to enrollees,...
Early Reading and Mathematics Achievement of Children Who Repeated Kindergarten
National Center for Education Statistics This Statistics in Brief examines the association between kindergarten enrollment status (e.g., repeating kindergarten or delaying entry into kindergarten) and children's first grade reading and mathematics achievement. Based on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten...
May 23, 2006
New Tool to Prevent Underage Drinking
From Ascribe Newsfeed: This prom and graduation season, teens will be exposed to a number of high-risk activities as they celebrate some of the most memorable milestones of their lives. Now, a publication developed by Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America...
Carnegie Mellon study demonstrates that lower income, education lead to greater stress levels
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: People with low incomes are more likely to be under stress than their wealthier peers, according to a study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, the journal of the American Psychosomatic Society, by Sheldon Cohen, the Robert...
Medicare Advantage plans not always a good deal
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Beneficiaries in poor health can pay more out of pocket for care in Medicare Advantage (MA) managed care plans than in traditional Medicare with Medigap supplemental coverage, a new Commonwealth Fund report finds. The report...
Anxiety common in elderly, yet often undiagnosed and undertreated
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Anxiety may be the most common mental disorder experienced by older adults, affecting one in 10 people over the age of 60. As many as 7 percent of people in this age group have generalized...
Computer-based screening may encourage discussions about domestic violence
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Computer screening may increase the odds that a woman at risk for domestic violence will talk to a health care professional in the emergency department about the topic but does not guarantee that domestic violence...
Questions Remain as Medicare Part D Enrollment Ends; Century Foundation Fellow Provides Analysis of Prescription Drug Benefit
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Last week's enrollment deadline for Medicare Part D marks the end of what has been a tumultuous first stage in the new prescription drug plan. While seniors have signed up in much greater numbers in recent...
May 22, 2006
Invisible scars: Verbal abuse triggers adult anxiety, depression
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new study by Florida State University researchers in Tallahassee, Fla. has found that people who were verbally abused as children grow up to be self-critical adults prone to depression and anxiety. Read more from...
Medicare Drug Benefit: Experiences of Dual Enrollees and Low-Income Beneficiaries
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Family Foundation held a May 18 forum to discuss the progress in providing low-income subsidies under the new drug benefit to seniors and younger Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities, and the experiences that beneficiaries...
Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In The Lancet, researchers from UNICEF and the Friedman School at Tufts University in Boston present five surprising facts about severe childhood malnutrition (aka "wasting") and argue that it must be resolved in non-emergency settings...
Child Welfare Legue of America to Tesify at Congressional Hearing on Child Protective Services
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Linda Spears, Vice President of Corporate Communications and Development of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA will provide testimony on the nation's child protective services system and the reauthorization of the Promoting Safe and Stable...
May 19, 2006
Delivering a Local EITC: Lessons from the San Francisco Working Families Credit
Brookings Institution In 2003, a coalition of public, private, and not-for-profit actors in San Francisco began work to create a local city/county supplement to the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. In addition to putting more money in the pockets of...
Credit Scores, Reports, and Getting Ahead in America
Brookings Institution Findings Consumer credit reports and scores play a growing role in the ability of families to get ahead, now influencing prices for loans and insurance and efforts to get jobs and rent apartments. Consumer credit scores widely vary...
New Fed Chairman Hails Community Development Efforts
Local Initiatives Support Corporation In two recent speeches, new Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke emphasized the value of community economic development. On May 3, at Operation HOPE's Anacostia Economic Summit in Washington, DC, Chairman Bernanke highlighted the importance...
Birth and Fertility Rates for States by Hispanic Origin Subgroups
CDC - Media Relations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new report, "Birth and Fertility Rates for States by Hispanic Origin Subgroups: United States, 1990 and 2000." The report, from CDC's National Center for Health...
May 18, 2006
Voucher Funding 2006: Responses to Increased Funding Levels
KnowledgePlex: Expert Chats Since February, HUD has notified public housing agencies of their voucher funding levels for 2006. A substantial majority of PHAs have funding to support more vouchers in 2006 compared to 2005. This chat, sponsored by KnowledgePlex and...
Exploring Quality Standards for Middle School After School Programs: What We Know and What We Need to Know
HFRP After School Conference Presentations On December 9, 2005, Harvard Family Research Project and the National Institute for Out-of-School Time cohosted a 1-day summit at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This summit, made possible through a grant from the...
Learning from Small-Scale Experimental Evaluations of After School Programs
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 Evaluation Database and Bibliography into a single...
May 17, 2006
Combining work and motherhood is good for women's health
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Life course social roles and women's health in mid-life: Causation or selection? Holding down a job and being a mum in a steady relationship helps keep women healthy and in good shape over the long...
May TV Show Spotlights Tools for Parents on Getting Informed, Involved in Schools
From Education Newsfeed: This month's U.S. Department of Education TV show will highlight tools for parents under No Child Left Behind and provide tips on how families can ensure their children have the best education possible through access to valuable...
New Report Highlights Food, Exercise Available to Children in Nation's Public Elementary Schools
From Education Newsfeed: Three-quarters of American public elementary schools offer physical education more than one day a week, and 8 out of 10 have daily recess, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center...
New Analysis Compares Medicare Stand-Alone Drug Plans With Medicare Advantage Plans
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: This new issue brief provides a comprehensive look at premiums, deductibles and selected cost-sharing features of Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans in 2006. Read more from this post....
A City's Changing Face
From washingtonpost.com : NEW ORLEANS -- Block by block, this city is springing back to life. Block by block, it is receding into the past tense. With Hurricane Katrina nearly nine months gone and about 60 percent of New Orleans's...
'Significant number' of parents of junior athletes adversely affect their child's development
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: "A significant number" of parents of junior athletes have a negative impact on their child's development, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine Read more from this post....
Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In a study with implications for Hurricane Katrina survivors, University of South Florida researchers looked at the psychosocial impact of Florida's Hurricane Charley on children in DeSoto County, a community particularly hard hit by the...
Despite weak jobs growth in April, wages finally starting to increase
From Economic Policy Institute: Employment growth fell off of its recent pace, as payrolls expanded by only 138,000 in April, well below expectations. Unemployment was unchanged at 4.7%, but wage growth did finally accelerate. For a further analysis of the...
How do children learn about science and God?
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A review of research in this month's Child Development addresses the differences between how children acquire scientific understanding versus spiritual understanding. Children learn about the things they cannot see based upon how teaching about these...
Critiquing misleading White House statements about the economy, part 4
From Economic Policy Institute: This Snapshot is part of a series; see also part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the series, or print the entire series. The unemployment rate of 4.7% in April remains slightly above the rate...
May 16, 2006
Length of deprivation in infants affects intellectual development for years
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A recent study of adopted Romanian children suggests that early experiences of profound institutional deprivation continue to exert marked adverse effects on the children's IQ through age 11. The research shows an IQ deficit in...
Moderate stress during pregnancy does not harm child development
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Many cultures hold that stress during pregnancy affects a woman's unborn child. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the National Institute of Child Health Development (NICHD) asked 137 healthy, pregnant women with low-risk,...
Mild maternal stress may actually help children mature
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have learned that contrary to popular belief, mild to moderate levels of maternal psychological stress during pregnancy may actually...
Foster Youth Speak Out
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Young men and women who have first-hand experience of foster care are an under-utilized resource in our efforts to understand and improve a system that has more than 500,000 children in its care. On May 24, in...
Independent Experts Set to Oversee Day-to-Day Implementation of Needed Changes at Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
From U.S. Newswire Releases: A court-approved panel of outside experts with broad experience working directly in juvenile detention centers will develop and monitor the implementation of a specific plan to improve the pervasive and continuing climate of violence and chaos...
National Center for Construction Education and Research
YouthBuild USA : Instructor Certification Training Program Come to New York City and bring back nationally recognized construction certification training for your students. As part of its accreditation process, NCCER has developed the Instructor Certification Program (ICTP). Through this process,...
May 15, 2006
Making Work Supports Work
National Center for Children in Poverty NCCP's Making Work Supports Work initiative examines the current patchwork of federal and state programs that assist low-wage workers and their families. By "work supports," we mean public benefits such as earned income tax...
May 12, 2006
School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students
FRAC The Food Research and Action Center has recently published a Parent Outreach Brochure to encourage more parents to get involved in creating local wellness policies for their school district. The brochure was designed for parents who may be unaware...
Medicare Drug Program Fails to Reach Low-Income Seniors
Families USA When the Medicare (Part D) drug legislation was enacted, President Bush and congressional leaders boasted that it would be a great help for low-income seniors. A report released today shows that this promise is unfulfilled and more than...
37 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Now Receiving Prescription Drug Coverage
Medicare announced today that over a million more people have enrolled in prescription drug coverage between late April and May 6, bringing the total of beneficiaries with prescription drug coverage to 37 million. This number includes about 9 million individual...
Parents' Low Education Leads to Low Income, Despite Full-Time Employment
NCCP | Parents' Low Education Leads to Low Income, Despite Full-Time Employment This fact sheet includes children who live apart from both parents, such as foster children or children being raised by grandparents. Higher education is one of the most...
The Racial Gap in Parental Education
NCCP | The Racial Gap in Parental Education This fact sheet includes children who live apart from both parents, such as foster children or children being raised by grandparents. Of the 74 million children in the United States, over 40...
May 11, 2006
Are Federal Poverty Estimates Valid For California?
Press Release California's poverty rate soars from 15th to 3rd in the nation when regional cost of living---omitted from federal calculations---is factored in and the most current poverty data are used, according to a study released today by the Public...
Study Finds Integrated Schools Benefit Students
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Middle-school students are more likely to feel safer, less bullied and less lonely when they are in ethnically diverse schools, says a new study by UC Davis and UCLA psychologists. The study offers new empirical evidence for...
US infant mortality rate fails to improve
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Nearly 28,000 babies died before their first birthday, according to new infant mortality statistics for 2003 released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Premature birth is the leading cause of newborn death in...
Housing Costs Change List of Top Areas for Poverty
From NYT > National: A new report that adjusts the poverty line to reflect housing costs says New York, California and Washington, D.C., have the highest percentage of residents living in poverty, surpassing traditionally impoverished regions like the Deep South....
Paying for Persistence - Opening Doors to Community College
From MDRC: Funded by state welfare dollars, two community colleges in the New Orleans area offered performance-based scholarships and enhanced counseling to low-income parents, as part of MDRC's Opening Doors demonstration. These early findings show the program had significant positive...
PTA Parents Rally to Save Arts Education
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Thousands of PTA Parents Rally to Save Arts Education. The artists, comprised of kindergarteners through high school seniors, will take their bows as state winners of the National PTA Reflections Program, an arts recognition and achievement...
Tropical depression: Hurricane linked to long-term mental distress
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Florida State University sociologists in Tallahassee, Fla. have found that some South Floridians who survived 1992's Hurricane Andrew suffered mental health problems many years later, a finding that has led the researchers to predict even...
New Process Benefits Victims of Human Trafficking Seeking College Aid
From Education Newsfeed: Victims of human trafficking who cooperate with law enforcement officials to prosecute traffickers will benefit from a new, streamlined process to apply for and receive federal financial aid for postsecondary education, announced today by U.S. Education Secretary...
California State PTA 107th Convention; Healthy Lifestyle Walk Encourages Physical Fitness
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Mobilizing the PTA is something Sacramento would love to do, but it's the city of Anaheim that's going to see it happen - if they're up early enough on Saturday, May 13. It isn't the state's...
May 10, 2006
Bush Backs Monday Deadline For Seniors
From washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - US government, national security, science and national news and headlines.: President Bush insisted yesterday that the May 15 deadline for picking a Medicare prescription drug plan will stand, even as key Republican lawmakers suggested they...
CAMY: Alcohol Ads in Magazines Reaching Fewer Underage Youth
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Youth exposure to alcohol advertising in magazines declined from 2001 to 2004, but -- largely because of the advertising of a few brands -- youth continued to be exposed more per capita than...
Youth Seeing Fewer Alcohol Ads in Magazines, CAMY Says
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: Overall youth exposure to alcohol advertising in magazines is on the decline, but some brands continue to be advertised in publications with large youth readership. Read more from this post....
California State PTA Urges More Action with Healthy Lifestyles in Action Walk
From U.S. Newswire Releases: WHAT: A walk of over a mile to demonstrate commitment to healthy living and the terrific programs PTAs provide for their communities, including physical education and nutrition programs. The $20 entrance fee supports those programs. Read...
Stanford Business School Research: When Culture Impacts Consumer Behavior
From Ascribe Newsfeed: You need a new computer. You log on to the web and spend time thoughtfully perusing various vendor sites to determine the best fit for your needs. You think you've made up your mind. But then you're...
Stanford Business School Research: Bridging the Culture Chasm Helps Consumers Be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
From Ascribe Newsfeed: Eat better. Exercise. Save more. Spend less. Consumers are full of well-meaning intentions to improve their health or general well-being across a number of dimensions. But how capable are individuals of actually changing their behavior? New research...
First Health Cost Snapshots Examine Overall Spending and Out-of-Pocket Costs
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: Two new online publications examine the growing share of the nation’s economy consumed by health care spending and efforts to restrain that growth, as well as the current levels of out-of-pocket spending for health care...
Affairs of the heart matter to boys, too, sociologists find
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Teenage boys have feelings, too, and when it comes to matters of the heart, they may not be so fleeting after all. Not far beneath the bravado often on display is an unsure adolescent who...
Getting Connected: Employer Engagement in Work Supports
From Center for Law and Social Policy: Twenty-four million jobs---one fifth of all jobs in the United States ---cannot keep a family of four above the poverty level.1 One-quarter of all workers are in jobs that pay wages below the...
Young adults happier than adolescents
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Although young adults are faced with a diversity of life choices, they seem to be coming to terms with themselves and their lives in their 20s, says new University of Alberta research that shows psychological...
Using TANF for Early Childhood Programs
From Center for Law and Social Policy: In 2005, spending on state-funded prekindergarten was $2.8 billion in state and federal funds. Most of these programs target children most at-risk for school failure, including those living in families with low incomes....
Of U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are Minorities
From washingtonpost.com : Nearly half of the nation's children under 5 are racial or ethnic minorities, and the percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly, according to a census report released today. Hispanics are the...
May 09, 2006
Two Setbacks for Exit Exams Taken by High School Seniors
From NYT > National: In two setbacks for high school exit exams, a judge in Oakland said Tuesday that he was inclined to ban such tests as a graduation requirement in California and a Massachusetts school board voted to issue...
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Honors Ohio's - Youth Advocates of the Year
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Ohio's statewide youth anti-tobacco group, stand, has been named the Youth Advocate of the Year Group Winner by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids for their leadership in the fight against tobacco. The movement includes nearly 2,000...
New Student Aid Changes Help Nontraditional Students
From Center for Law and Social Policy: Although Congress has yet to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, the fiscal year 2006 federal budget-enacted in February 2006-included several higher education provisions that will provide additional financial aid to low-income working adults...
Implementing the TANF Changes in the DRA: "Win-Win" Solutions for Families and States
From Center for Law and Social Policy: This report from CLASP and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is intended to guide state administrators and advocates as they consider implementing the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provisions...
Students Donate $385,000 to 77 Charities
Toskan Foundation - Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Julie Toskan-Casale, a founder and the former Executive Director of Marketing Development at MAC Cosmetics, and a founder of the Toskan Foundation, is a Toronto-based philanthropist determined to help build a more compassionate...
May 08, 2006
Children's Mental Health Week and Awareness Day
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Families Together in New York State, a non-profit organization that offers support and information for youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges and their families, is pleased to announce that the first-ever National Children's Mental Health...
America's 'Near Poor' Are Increasingly at Economic Risk, Experts Say
From NYT > National: Americans on the lower rungs of the economic ladder have always been exposed to sudden ruin. In a rare study of vulnerability to poverty, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that the risk of...
Children's Defense Fund to Lead Delegation on Katrina Child Watch Visit to New Orleans on May 8
From U.S. Newswire Releases: A delegation of prominent Hollywood women - including New Orleans native and Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Board Member Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner, Cicely Tyson, Regina King and Deborah Santana - will travel to New Orleans to...
May 07, 2006
Remarks Launching Charter Schools Week
From Education Newsfeed: Secretary Spellings Delivers Remarks Launching Charter Schools Week "We must stop rationing opportunity by limiting the number of charter schools." U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today delivered remarks to the National Charter Schools Program Showcase at...
Student Eligibility Options for New Academic Grants
From Education Newsfeed: Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. Department of Education today announced guidelines for current college students and high school seniors to apply for new Academic Competitiveness Grants and National SMART Grants for the 2006-07 academic year. Students who...
Hundreds of Community Leaders Demand Extension of Medicare Part D Deadline
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Today hundreds of community leaders from across the nation, representing National People's Action (NPA) will converge on the home of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, delivering NPA's giant "prescription" for the country's broken health...
Critiquing Misleading White House Statements About the Economy, part 2
From Economic Policy Institute: This Snapshot is the second in a series evaluating recent statements made by the Bush Administration regarding economic trends and conditions. In this Snapshot, EPI economist L. Josh Bivens debunks their comparisons of employment growth between...
Sally Ride Promotes the Importance of Science Education
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has a love for science. Holding a bachelor's, masters and Ph.D. in physics from Stanford, Dr. Ride is focused on promoting the importance of science education for the...
May 04, 2006
Americans with Disabilities: Ready for the Global Workforce
2006 National Disability Employment Awareness Month Theme Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao this week announced that "Americans with Disabilities: Ready for the Global Workforce" will be the official theme for October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which is celebrated...
LISC - Creating and Financing Affordable Housing
LISC Interview When Oramenta Newsome came to D.C. in the mid-1990s, the city was careening toward bankruptcy. There was no shortage of affordable housing because nobody wanted to invest in the city. As head of the New York-based Local Initiatives...
Food Stamp Caseloads Dip Over Month in January 2006
FRAC - Food Stamp Program Participation Data In January 2006 food stamp participation dipped to 26,614,529 persons, 73,911 fewer than in December 2005. Nonetheless, the overall caseload was still nearly 1.2 million persons higher than the prior January and nearly...
House Subcommittee Passes Funding for Nutrition Programs
FRAC: Alert - 5/04/06 On May 3, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee reported out its FY2007 funding bill for the Department of Agriculture. Although details of the bill will not be public until later this week or just prior to...
Children's Savings Accounts Proposed
Community Media Workshop: Newstips - Children's Savings Accounts Proposed The founder of the asset-building movement and Pennsylvania's director of financial education will speak at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle, on Wednesday, May 3, at a policy...
Children in Kinship Care Gaining Ground
Trends in Service Receipt: Children in Kinship Care Gaining Ground In 2002, 2.3 million children lived with relatives without a parent present in the household. These arrangements, usually referred to as kinship care, may occur for several reasons including child...
Critiquing misleading White House statements about the economy, part 1
From Economic Policy Institute: This Snapshot marks the first in a series evaluating recent statements made by the Bush Administration regarding economic trends and conditions. In today's Snapshot, EPI economist Jared Bernstein reveals the truth about income growth. First, these...
Key Issues affecting Health Care and the Drug Industry to Be Featured In May 10 "Kaiser Conversations on Health"
From The Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Family Foundation's vice president Jackie Judd talks with Eli Lilly and Company chairman and CEO Sidney Taurel as part of the "Kaiser Conversations on Health" series. The conversation will touch on Taurel's views...
May 03, 2006
Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Questionnaire Is Best
From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News: The results of this study confirm that a validated questionnaire is more sensitive, more specific, and cheaper than blood tests, and therefore is the best way to screen for unhealthy alcohol use. To...
Medicare Part D Needs Fixing Now: Pennsylvania Pharmacist Makes Case to Congress
From U.S. Newswire Releases: Pennsylvania pharmacist Pamela Grisnik, RPh, told Congress today that many pharmacies will be forced out of business unless rapid changes are made to the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program. She appeared on behalf of...
May 02, 2006
Anti-Poverty Agencies Celebrate National Community Action Month
Community Action Partnership: News Releases Every year in May, the Community Action Agencies (CAA's) across the country celebrate National Community Action Month (NCAM) by highlighting the innovative ways they are opening doors and leading the way for 13 million low-income...
Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models - An Overview High school reform has moved to the top of the education policy agenda, commanding the attention of the federal government, governors, urban school superintendents, philanthropists, and the general public. All...
May 01, 2006
Energy Efficiency Highlight Of Rebuilding Together Low-Income Home Renovations
From U.S. Newswire Releases: America's oil and natural gas industry and Rebuilding Together - Metro Chicago, the local affiliate of the nation's largest volunteer home rehabilitation organization, today helped a family with a limited income reduce their energy use by...
Suicide awareness, prevention programs needed in schools
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the same way they skirted discussions about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time...
Immigrants set for massive rallies
From Yahoo! News: Top Stories: Pro-immigrant backers of a nationwide boycott set for Monday predict millions of immigrants will stay away from work, school and stores and rally in support of an overhaul of America's immigration laws. The walkout has...
African American men paradoxically have fewer, less severe coronary obstructions than white males
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: While African American men are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease, they paradoxically have fewer cases of coronary obstruction than clinically similar white men, according to a new national study led by a Medical...
ADA is National Supporter of 'Cover the Uninsured Week,' May 1 - 7
From Ascribe Newsfeed: The American Dental Association (ADA) will join thousands of individuals and organizations across the country in observing "Cover the Uninsured Week," a national call for meaningful steps toward helping the millions of Americans who lack adequate access...
May is Mental Health Month: 'Learn More About the Warning Signs of Mental Illnesses'
From U.S. Newswire Releases: The American Psychiatric Association (APA), along with the nation's mental health community, observes May as national Mental Health Month. These are just some of the warning signs of a common mental illness, such as depression or...
Pediatricians don't often refer patients to community resources for childhood aggression
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Training pediatricians to recognize the signs of aggression and make a referral to an appropriate community organization may help prevent future violence. However, providers don't often do this, according to a new study by a...
Mothers often have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body weight, study shows
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Latina mothers of preschool-aged children frequently have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body mass index and believe they are healthy when they are overweight, according to a new study from the University of California, San...
NIDA Grants for Prescription Drug Abuse Research
From Funding News: The National Institute on Drugs Abuse is offering several grants for research to reduce prescription drug abuse. Read more from this post....