Poverty Dispatch - August 20, 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:

• Measuring Poverty
• Child Poverty - Vermont
• State Children's Health Insurance Program - Mississippi
• States and Health Care Plans
• Community Health Centers
• Hurricane Katrina Victims and Mental Health
• Homelessness - New Orleans, LA
• Homelessness and Housing First
• Hunger and Food Assistance
• Out-of-state Prisoner Transfers - California, Mississippi
• Opinion: Early Childhood Education - Virginia
• Editorials: No Child Left Behind

Today's Articles:

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Measuring Poverty

New poverty report feared distorted by dated premises. Read Article
By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times. August 19, 2007.
 

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Child Poverty - Vermont

Child poverty rates 'terrify.' (VERMONT) Read Article
By Daniel Barlow, Rutland Herald. August 18, 2007.
 

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State Children's Health Insurance Program - Mississippi

Congress debates children's health care: SCHIP splits delegation. (MISSISSIPPI) Read Article
By Sid Salter, Jackson Clarion Ledger. August 19, 2007.
 

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States and Health Care Plans

Doyle plan bypasses federal fight on funding. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. August 17, 2007.
 

Health care for kids might pass. (CALIFORNIA) Read Article
By Aurelio Rojas, Sacramento Bee. August 20, 2007.
 

Older residents feel insurance law pinch. (MASSACHUSETTS) Read Article
By Alice Dembner, Boston Globe. August 17, 2007.
 

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Community Health Centers

At least one U.S. health safety net is strained but holding strong. Read Article
By Larry Wheeler, Salem Statesman Journal. August 20, 2007.
 

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Hurricane Katrina Victims and Mental Health

Katrina victims struggle mentally. Read Article
By Marilyn Elias, USA Today. August 16, 2007.
 

Trauma shapes Katrina's kids. Read Article
By Marilyn Elias, USA Today. August 16, 2007.
 

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Homelessness - New Orleans, LA

Homeless on the rise in New Orleans. Read Article
By John Moreno Gonzales (Associated Press), Boston Globe. August 19, 2007.
 

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Homelessness and Housing First

Moving the homeless out of shelters, into homes. Read Article
By Alexandra Marks, Christian Science Monitor. August 20, 2007.
 

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Hunger and Food Assistance

Poor stretch aid as price of food rises. (NORTH CAROLINA) Read Article
By Andrew Barksdale, Fayetteville Observer. August 19, 2007.
 

A fortress against hunger. (MASSACHUSETTS) Read Article
Editorial, Boston Globe. August 20, 2007.
 

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Out-of-state Prisoner Transfers - California, Mississippi

Prisoners sent to Mississippi. Read Article
By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee. August 18, 2007.
 

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Opinion: Early Childhood Education - Virginia

Pre-K pragmatism from Tim Kaine. (VIRGINIA) Read Article
By Fred Hiatt, Washington Post. August 20, 2007.
 

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Editorials: No Child Left Behind

The poverty problem. (MISSOURI) Read Article
Editorial, Springfield News-Leader. August 16, 2007.
 

No funding left behind. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
Editorial, Detroit Free Press. August 19, 2007.
 

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