Poverty Dispatch - August 6, 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:

• State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Opinions: State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Medicaid Recipients and Access to Care - Kansas, Texas
• Medicaid Birth Coverage - Wisconsin
• Social Security Disability Payments - Wisconsin
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Wisconsin
• Food Insecurity and Assistance
• Homeless Veterans - Florida
• Affordable Housing - Portland, OR
• School Integration by Income - Florida
• Early Childhood Education - Alaska, Washington

Today's Articles:

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State Children's Health Insurance Program

Senate passes children’s health bill, 68-31. Read Article
By Robert Pear, New York Times. August 3, 2007.
 

Senate votes to widen kids' health plan. Read Article
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times. August 3, 2007.
 

Big questions loom in SCHIP fight. Read Article
By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org. August 6, 2007.
 

Less, less, less! More, more, Moore! Read Article
By Robin Toner, New York Times. August 5, 2007.
 

Congress' action would preserve state's BadgerCare. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Ellyn Ferguson, Green Bay Press-Gazette. August 5, 2007.
 

Kids' health insurance changes may affect all. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Maureen Groppe, Lafayette Journal and Courier. August 6, 2007.
 

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Opinions: State Children's Health Insurance Program

Health bill does right by children. (MISSOURI) Read Article
Editorial, Springfield News-Leader. August 6, 2007.
 

A signal on children's health. (NEW JERSEY) Read Article
Editorial, Star-Ledger. August 6, 2007.
 

Low income families need health insurance bill. (ALABAMA) Read Article
Editorial, Tuscaloosa News. August 5, 2007.
 

Federally insuring more kids is what state wants. (ARIZONA) Read Article
By Linda Valdez, Arizona Republic. August 5, 2007.
 

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Medicaid Recipients and Access to Care - Kansas, Texas

Medicaid changes alarm rural drugstores. (KANSAS) Read Article
By Rob Hotakainen, Wichita Eagle. August 6, 2007.
 

Austin Medicaid patients enduring long waits, drives to get care. (TEXAS) Read Article
By Elliot Jaspin, Austin American-Statesman. August 6, 2007.
 

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Medicaid Birth Coverage - Wisconsin

Medicaid-paid births on rise. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Stacy Forster, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. August 5, 2007.
 

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Social Security Disability Payments - Wisconsin

Disabled and still waiting. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Mary Zahn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. August 5, 2007.
 

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Wisconsin

Grandparents get the kids. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Sandra Kallio, Wisconsin State Journal. August 5, 2007.
 

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Food Insecurity and Assistance

Going beyond food stamps. (COLORADO) Read Article
By Jean Torkelson, Rocky Mountain News. August 6, 2007.
 

Critical hunger for reform. Read Article
By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times. August 5, 2007.
 

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Homeless Veterans - Florida

Homeless vets: A hidden crisis. (FLORIDA) Read Article
By Darryl E. Owens, Orlando Sentinel. August 6, 2007.
 

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Affordable Housing - Portland, OR

Affordable rent comes at a high price. (PORTLAND, OR) Read Article
By Robin Franzen, The Oregonian. August 5, 2007.
 

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School Integration by Income - Florida

Mixing rich and poor is new goal. (FLORIDA) Read Article
By Dave Weber, Orlando Sentinel. August 6, 2007.
 

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Early Childhood Education - Alaska, Washington

In Alaska, school equality elusive. (ALASKA) Read Article
By Yereth Rosen, Christian Science Monitor. August 3, 2007.
 

Officials study how to teach kids under 5. (WASHINGTON) Read Article
By Isolde Raftery, The Columbian. August 6, 2007.
 

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