Poverty Dispatch - October 22, 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:

• Medicaid Reform - Kansas
• Child Welfare and Foster Care - Illinois, Los Angeles, CA
• Food Assistance - Wichita, KS
• Healthy San Francisco Program
• Health Care Coverage and Latino Children - Missouri
• The Working Poor and Rising Food and Energy Prices
• Low-wage Workers and Retirement
• Disaster Aid and Low-income Residents - Florida
• Opinion: Low-income Utility Assistance and Health
• Opinion: Postsecondary Education

Today's Articles:

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Medicaid Reform - Kansas

Medicaid — A crisis in care. (KANSAS) Read Article
By Jan Biles and Dave Ranney, Topeka Capital-Journal. October 21, 2007.
 

Eligibility for Medicaid differs for parents, children. (KANSAS) Read Article
By Jan Biles, Topeka Capital-Journal. October 21, 2007.
 

Medicaid: 'It's an issue.' (KANSAS) Read Article
By James Carlson, Topeka Capital-Journal. October 22, 2007.
 

Family witnesses good and bad of system. (KANSAS) Read Article
By Jan Biles, Topeka Capital-Journal. October 22, 2007.
 

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Child Welfare and Foster Care - Illinois, Los Angeles, CA

DCFS parents are offered help. (ILLINOIS) Read Article
By Ofelia Casillas, Chicago Tribune. October 21, 2007.
 

Far fewer children in L.A. County foster care. (LOS ANGELES, CA) Read Article
By Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times. October 20, 2007.
 

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Food Assistance - Wichita, KS

A growing hunger. (WICHITA, KS) Read Article
By Roy Wenzl, Wichita Eagle. October 21, 2007.
 

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Healthy San Francisco Program

S.F. offering healthcare to neediest. (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) Read Article
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times. October 22, 2007.
 

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Health Care Coverage and Latino Children - Missouri

Many Latino children fall through the cracks in the health care system. (MISSOURI) Read Article
By Tara Ballenger, Columbia Missourian. October 22, 2007.
 

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The Working Poor and Rising Food and Energy Prices

Paychecks too far apart: Working poor's struggles extend to the middle class. Read Article
By Anne D'Innocenzio, Modesto Bee. October 20, 2007.
 

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Low-wage Workers and Retirement

Low-paid workers rely on Social Security. Read Article
By Martha M. Hamilton (Washington Post), Wilmington News Journal. October 22, 2007.
 

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Disaster Aid and Low-income Residents - Florida

FEMA aid went mostly to the poor. (FLORIDA) Read Article
By Melanie Payne, The News-Press. October 21, 2007.
 

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Opinion: Low-income Utility Assistance and Health

The heat or eat dilemma. (Opinion) Read Article
By Deborah A. Frank and Joseph P. Kennedy II, Boston Globe. October 21, 2007.
 

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Opinion: Postsecondary Education

Surveys show postsecondary degrees are the key. (Opinion) Read Article
By Sandy Butler and Luisa Duprez, Bangor Daily News. October 9, 2007.
 

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