Poverty Dispatch - October 8, 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:

• Child Care Subsidies - Indiana
• Child Poverty - Milwaukee, WI
• Welfare-to-Work Programs - California, Tennessee
• Medicaid Spending Levels
• Medicaid and Children's Dental Coverage
• Homeless Families and Students
• Homeless Initiative - Los Angeles, CA
• Affordable Housing and Federal Housing Assistance
• Poverty Rate of People Displaced by Katrina - New Orleans, LA
• Foster Care System - Oregon
• Minimum Wage Increase - Arizona
• Opinion: Poverty Measurement
• Editorial: Prison Recidivism and Debt
• No Child Left Behind and Achievement Gap

Today's Articles:

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Child Care Subsidies - Indiana

State shifts $10 million to child care. (INDIANA) Read Article
Indianapolis Star. October 4, 2007.
 

Help for working families. (INDIANA) Read Article
Editorial, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. October 5, 2007.
 

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Child Poverty - Milwaukee, WI

Helping children out of poverty. (MILWAUKEE, WI) Read Article
By Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. October 6, 2007.
 

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Welfare-to-Work Programs - California, Tennessee

County may toughen welfare rules. (CALIFORNIA) Read Article
By Sara Steffens, The Argus. October 5, 2007.
 

Exiting the welfare rolls is not the end of the story. (TENNESSEE) Read Article
Editorial, Robertson County Times. October 6, 2007.
 

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Medicaid Spending Levels

Medicaid spending jumps sharply. Read Article
By Dennis Cauchon, USA Today. October 8, 2007.
 

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Medicaid and Children's Dental Coverage

Dental help for poor questioned. Read Article
By Mary Otto, Washington Post. October 4, 2007.
 

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Homeless Families and Students

Number of homeless families rises. Read Article
By Pat Eaton-Robb (Associated Press), Houston Chronicle. October 8, 2007.
 

Increasing numbers of homeless LAUSD students face challenges. (LOS ANGELES, CA) Read Article
By Naush Boghossian, Los Angeles Daily News. October 8, 2007.
 

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Homeless Initiative - Los Angeles, CA

County's homeless initiative hits skids, heads in a different direction. (LOS ANGELES, CA) Read Article
By Susannah Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times. October 7, 2007.
 

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Affordable Housing and Federal Housing Assistance

Poor families paying more, finding less to rent. Read Article
By Tony Pugh, The Morning Call. October 7, 2007.
 

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Poverty Rate of People Displaced by Katrina - New Orleans, LA

Katrina evacuees feel money pinch. Read Article
By Brad Heath, USA Today. October 8, 2007.
 

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Foster Care System - Oregon

Oregon's foster care fails to thrive. (OREGON) Read Article
By Michelle Cole and Brent Walth, The Oregonian. October 7, 2007.
 

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Minimum Wage Increase - Arizona

AZ minimum wage approaches $7. (ARIZONA) Read Article
By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star. October 6, 2007.
 

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Opinion: Poverty Measurement

Poverty line not as great as you think. Read Article
By Dawn Miller, Charleston Gazette. October 5, 2007.
 

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Editorial: Prison Recidivism and Debt

Out of prison and deep in debt. (Editorial) Read Article
Editorial, New York Times. October 6, 2007.
 

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No Child Left Behind and Achievement Gap

State in program to tutor poor students. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Deanna Martin (Associated Press), Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. October 5, 2007.
 

Signs of progress. (FLORIDA) Read Article
Editorial, Tallahassee Democrat. October 7, 2007.
 

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