Poverty Dispatch - December 13, 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:

• Editorials: People Living in Poverty - Ohio, Michigan, Indiana
• Reservation Homeless Survey - Minnesota
• Homelessness and Housing - Maine
• Medicaid Funding and Reform - Minnesota, Florida
• Medicaid Computer System - New Hampshire
• Healthy Indiana Plan
• State Children's Health Insurance Program
• Social Services and Verification of Eligibility - Maryland
• Child Welfare Workloads and Funding - Washington, Virginia
• Farm Bill and Food Assistance - Minnesota
• School Free Breakfast Program - Wisconsin
• Home Foreclosures - Minnesota, Ohio
• Low-wage Workers and Retirement Savings
• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
• States and Immigration Policies
• Payday Lending Legislation - Ohio
• Paid Sick Leave - Ohio

Today's Articles:

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Editorials: People Living in Poverty - Ohio, Michigan, Indiana

We all lose when poverty grows. (OHIO) Read Article
Editorial, Cincinnati Enquirer. December 11, 2007.
 

Poverty is biggest threat to state children. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
Editorial, Detroit News. December 10, 2007.
 

Kids Count report says Michigan still has some work to do. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
Editorial, Courier Leader. December 10, 2007.
 

Poverty, taxes and community. (INDIANA) Read Article
Editorial, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. December 13, 2007.
 

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Reservation Homeless Survey - Minnesota

Reservation homelessness survey first in the nation. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio. December 10, 2007.
 

Study shows homelessness is prevalent on reservations. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Jana Hollingsworth, Rosemount Town Pages. December 12, 2007.
 

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Homelessness and Housing - Maine

Bill directs panel to study causes of homelessness. (MAINE) Read Article
By Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News. December 11, 2007.
 

Role of Maine shelters in flux. (MAINE) Read Article
By Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News. December 11, 2007.
 

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Medicaid Funding and Reform - Minnesota, Florida

Medicaid cut means less for kids at risk, state officials say. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Warren Wolfe,Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. December 11, 2007.
 

Medicaid reform plan to remain for now in First Coast, Broward. (FLORIDA) Read Article
By J. Taylor Rushing, Jacksonville Times-Union. December 10, 2007.
 

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Medicaid Computer System - New Hampshire

Council extends Medicaid computer contract. (NEW HAMPSHIRE) Read Article
By Tom Fahey, Union Leader. December 12, 2007.
 

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Healthy Indiana Plan

Hoosiers to start lining up for insurance. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star. December 13, 2007.
 

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State Children's Health Insurance Program

Details of kids' health care bill discussed. (MONTANA) Read Article
By Mike Dennison, Billings Gazette. December 11, 2007.
 

Bush vetoes kids health insurance bill. Read Article
By Jennifer Loven (Associated Press), Dayton Daily News. December 13, 2007.
 

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Social Services and Verification of Eligibility - Maryland

Audit finds improper public-aid payouts. (MARYLAND) Read Article
By Andrew A. Green, Baltimore Sun. December 11, 2007.
 

Welfare loopholes found in Maryland. (MARYLAND) Read Article
By Tom LoBianco, Washington Times. December 13, 2007.
 

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Child Welfare Workloads and Funding - Washington, Virginia

Local News | Boost child-welfare caseworkers by 70 percent, study says. (WASHINGTON) Read Article
By Maureen O'Hagan, Seattle Times. December 11, 2007.
 

Kaine to seek millions more for foster care. (VIRGINIA) Read Article
By Chris L. Jenkins, Washington Post. December 11, 2007.
 

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Farm Bill and Food Assistance - Minnesota

Farm bill will influence food shelf future. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Sea Stachura, Minnesota Public Radio. December 13, 2007.
 

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School Free Breakfast Program - Wisconsin

Pupil breakfasts gain. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Alan J. Borsuk. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. December 10, 2007.
 

Wisconsin no longer worst for free breakfasts to kids. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
New Richmond News. December 11, 2007.
 

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Home Foreclosures - Minnesota, Ohio

Mortgage foreclosures ripple into rural Minnesota. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Larry Oakes, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. December 11, 2007.
 

Ohio leads fight to stop foreclosures. (OHIO) Read Article
By Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor. December 12, 2007.
 

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Low-wage Workers and Retirement Savings

401(k) study has bad news for young workers. Read Article
By Jonathan Peterson, Los Angeles Times. December 12, 2007.
 

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Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

States worry about federal heating aid. Read Article
By Andrew Miga (Associated Press), Baltimore Sun. December 10, 2007.
 

Facing winter without heat puts big chill on families.(MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Allie Shah, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. December 13, 2007.
 

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States and Immigration Policies

With feds stuck, states take on immigration. Read Article
By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org. December 13, 2007.
 

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Payday Lending Legislation - Ohio

2 bills likely pink slips for state's payday lenders.(OHIO) Read Article
By Jim Siegel, Columbus Dispatch. December 13, 2007.
 

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Paid Sick Leave - Ohio

Backers of paid sick time law filing petitions today. (OHIO) Read Article
By Jim Provance, Toledo Blade. December 11, 2007.
 

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