Poverty Dispatch - October 25, 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:

• Rural Poverty - Ohio
• Poverty Rate and Low-Wage Work - Washington D.C.
• Editorial: The Working Poor and Work Supports - Minnesota
• Paid Sick Leave Campaign - Ohio
• Low-income Utility Assistance and Rising Energy Costs - New Jersey
• State Budget and Medicaid Spending - Michigan
• State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Study: Smoking Rates of Urban Poor - Baltimore, MD
• Minimum Wage Increase - Missouri
• Prisoner Re-entry Programs - Kansas
• Repeat Teen Birth Rates
• Report: Cost of High School Dropouts - North Carolina

Today's Articles:

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Rural Poverty - Ohio

Rural poor a growing problem. (OHIO) Read Article
By Catherine Candisky, Columbus Dispatch. October 22, 2007.
 

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Poverty Rate and Low-Wage Work - Washington D.C.

Poverty rate grows amid an economic boom. (WASHINGTON D.C.) Read Article
By Sylvia Moreno, Washington Post. October 24, 2007.
 

Study sites growing poverty, inequality in nation's capital. (WASHINGTON D.C.) Read Article
By Sarah Karush (Associated Press), The Examiner. October 24, 2007.
 

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Editorial: The Working Poor and Work Supports - Minnesota

Bridge the gap for the working poor. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
Editorial, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. October 23, 2007.
 

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Paid Sick Leave Campaign - Ohio

Push for sick days begins. (OHIO) Read Article
By Catherine Candisky and Alan Johnson, Columbus Dispatch. October 23, 2007.
 

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Low-income Utility Assistance and Rising Energy Costs - New Jersey

Families to be hit by oil, gas hikes. (NEW JERSEY) Read Article
The Herald News. October 24, 2007.
 

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State Budget and Medicaid Spending - Michigan

Budget hangs on Medicaid, hunting. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
By Chris Christoff, Detroit Free Press. October 25, 2007.
 

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State Children's Health Insurance Program

SCHIP veto puts La. in bind. (LOUISIANA) Read Article
By Marsha Schuler, Baton Rouge Advocate. October 25, 2007.
 

House to test revised kids' health bill. Read Article
By Charles Babington (Associated Press), Boston Globe. October 25, 2007.
 

House Democrats set for vote on new version of children's health bill. Read Article
By Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post. October 25, 2007.
 

House to vote on new version of child health bill. Read Article
By Robert Pear, New York Times. October 25, 2007.
 

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Study: Smoking Rates of Urban Poor - Baltimore, MD

The smoking scourge among urban blacks. (BALTIMORE, MD) Read Article
By Erik Eckholm, New York Times. October 20, 2007.
 

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Minimum Wage Increase - Missouri

Minimum wage cooks up more controversy. (MISSOURI) Read Article
By Cory Smith, Springfield Business Journal. October 22, 2007.
 

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Prisoner Re-entry Programs - Kansas

Prisoner reintegration working, official says. (KANSAS) Read Article
By Hurst Laviana, Wichita Eagle. October 25, 2007.
 

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Repeat Teen Birth Rates

Repeat teen births highest in Texas at 24%. Read Article
By Sharon Jayson, USA Today. October 24, 2007.
 

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Report: Cost of High School Dropouts - North Carolina

High school dropouts' price is high. (NORTH CAROLINA) Read Article
By T. Keung Hui, News and Observer. October 25, 2007.
 

Report: School dropouts cost N.C. millions in taxes. (NORTH CAROLINA) Read Article
Associated Press, Winston-Salem Journal. October 25, 2007.
 

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