Poverty Dispatch - July 30, 2007

IRP compiles and distributes Poverty Dispatches, links to Web-based news items dealing with poverty, welfare reform, and related topics twice a week. Each Dispatch lists links to current news in popular print media. Persons wishing to receive Poverty Dispatches by e-mail should send a request to rsnell@ssc.wisc.edu.

Today's Topics in the News:

• 2007 Kids Count Report and States' Child Poverty Rates
• Moving from Welfare to Self-sufficiency - Nebraska
• Suburban Poverty - Los Angeles, CA
• Commentary: Privatization of Social Services
• State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Opinions: State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Funding Increase for Food Stamp Program
• High School Dropout Rates - Louisiana
• Editorial: Affordable Housing
• Opinion: Minimum Wage
• Earned Income Tax Credit - Michigan
• Payday Lending, Banking, and the Working Poor
• Gender Wage Gap - Tennessee
• Income Inequality
• Commentary: Sex Education
• Poverty as a Political Campaign Issue

Today's Articles:

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2007 Kids Count Report and States' Child Poverty Rates

Maine slips in Kids Count. (MAINE) Read Article
Editorial, Bangor Daily News. July 28, 2007.
 

No. 1 for kids -- with a caveat. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
Editorial, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. July 29, 2007.
 

Poverty by the numbers. (KENTUCKY) Read Article
Editorial, Louisville Courier-Journal. July 28, 2007.
 

Child poverty is expensive. (CONNECTICUT) Read Article
By Peter Debiasi, Deborah Monahan, The Day. July 29, 2007.
 

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Moving from Welfare to Self-sufficiency - Nebraska

Omaha in black and white: Self-sufficiency still eludes the state's poor. (OMAHA, NE) Read Article
By Erin Grace, Omaha World-Herald. July 29, 2007.
 

Overhaul results in shifts to other aid. (NEBRASKA) Read Article
By Erin Grace, Omaha World-Herald. July 29, 2007.
 

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Suburban Poverty - Los Angeles, CA

Trading places. (LOS ANGELES, CA) Read Article
By William Fulton, Los Angeles Times. July 29, 2007.
 

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Commentary: Privatization of Social Services

The price of privatization. (Commentary) Read Article
By John Young, Austin American Statesman. July 29, 2007.
 

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State Children's Health Insurance Program

Bush veto could stall effort to insure more Ohio kids. (OHIO) Read Article
By Elizabeth Auster, Cleveland Plain Dealer. July 29, 2007.
 

Kids' health-care battle is tale of 2 parties. (ILLINOIS) Read Article
By William Neikirk, Chicago Tribune. July 28, 2007.
 

State fears insurance for children in jeopardy. (CALIFORNIA) Read Article
By Bill Ainsworth, San Diego Union-Tribune. July 30, 2007.
 

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Opinions: State Children's Health Insurance Program

Kids' health trumps presidential whims. (NEW MEXICO) Read Article
Editorial, Albuquerque Tribune. July 27, 2007.
 

How can anyone oppose health care for children? (Opinion) Read Article
By Cynthia Tucker, Baltimore Sun. July 30, 2007.
 

Bush's stand on insurance plan contradicts words of compassion. (Opinion) Read Article
By John J. DiIulio Jr., Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 2007.
 

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Funding Increase for Food Stamp Program

House passes Farm Bill, expanding Food Stamps. (LOUISIANA) Read Article
By David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times. July 28, 2007.
 

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High School Dropout Rates - Louisiana

Study shows dropout numbers worsening. (LOUISIANA) Read Article
By Ashley Northington, Shreveport Times. July 29, 2007.
 

Community must share the goal of improving graduation rates. (LOUISIANA) Read Article
Editorial, Shreveport Times. July 29, 2007.
 

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Editorial: Affordable Housing

Raise the roofs. (Editorial) Read Article
Editorial, Washington Post. July 30, 2007.
 

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Opinion: Minimum Wage

An unlivable minimum. (Opinion) Read Article
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe. July 28, 2007.
 

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Earned Income Tax Credit - Michigan

GOP bill would halt low-income tax credit until surplus amassed. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
By Mark Hornbeck, Detroit News. July 30, 2007.
 

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Payday Lending, Banking, and the Working Poor

Payday crunch: Are loans a bailout or rip-off? (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Dan Simmons, La Crosse Tribune. July 29, 2007.
 

Payday lending has odd division. (OHIO) Read Article
By Dennis J. Willard, Akron Beacon Journal. July 29, 2007.
 

Banking for the urban poor. Read Article
By Francesca Segre, Marketplace, American Public Media. July 27, 2007.
 

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Gender Wage Gap - Tennessee

Wages tied to gender divide. (TENNESSEE) Read Article
By Emily Bregel, Chattanooga Times Free Press. July 30, 2007.
 

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Income Inequality

Yawning rich-poor gap could hobble economy. Read Article
By David R. Francis, Christian Science Monitor. July 30, 2007.
 

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Commentary: Sex Education

A truce in the sex ed wars? Read Article
By Jonathan Zimmerman, Christian Science Monitor. July 30, 2007.
 

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Poverty as a Political Campaign Issue

Politics and poverty. Read Article
Kentucky Post. July 28, 2007.
 

The race to beat poverty. (Editorial) Read Article
Editorial, The Capital Times. July 30, 2007.
 

Edwards, Obama attack poverty, but is America listening? (Opinion) Read Article
By Chuck Raasch, Tuscon Citizen. July 30, 2007.
 

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