Poverty Dispatch - March 17, 2008

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:

• Privatization of Social Services - Indiana
• Family Investment Program - Iowa
• Foster Care Programs - Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky
• Homelessness in New Orleans
• Hunger and Food Assistance - Louisiana, Maine
• Teenage Pregnancy - Massachusetts, Wisconsin
• Child Poverty - Oregon, Utah
• Earned Income Tax Credit
• All Day Kindergarten - Ohio
• States and Health Care Spending
• State Budgets and Spending Cuts
• High Cost of Utilities - Maryland
• Subprime Lending and Home Foreclosures - Minnesota, Ohio
• Paid Sick Leave - Connecticut
• Health Care Costs and the Uninsured
• Healthy San Francisco Plan and Restaurants

Today's Articles:

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Privatization of Social Services - Indiana

Privatized welfare assailed. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Ken Kusmer (Associated Press), Louisville Courier-Journal. March 12, 2008.
 

27 counties next for privatized welfare. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Ken Kusmer (Associated Press), Indianapolis Star. March 16, 2008.
 

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Family Investment Program - Iowa

Faces of welfare. (IOWA) Read Article
By Stacey Becker, Dubuque Telegraph Herald. March 16, 2008.
 

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Foster Care Programs - Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky

Use of foster care down across state. (PENNSYLVANIA) Read Article
By Chris Parker, Allentown Morning Call. March 16, 2008.
 

State pushing less use of foster care. (FLORIDA) Read Article
By Todd Ruger, Sarasota Herald-Tribune. March 16, 2008.
 

House panel OKs child-welfare office. (KENTUCKY) Read Article
By Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal. March 14, 2008.
 

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Homelessness in New Orleans

New Orleans' homeless rate swells to 1 in 25. (NEW ORLEANS, LA) Read Article
By Rick Jervis, USA Today. March 16, 2008.
 

Homeless still feel Katrina's wrath. (NEW ORLEANS, LA) Read Article
By Rick Jervis, USA Today. March 16, 2008.
 

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Hunger and Food Assistance - Louisiana, Maine

Hunger problem 'urgent' for state. (LOUISIANA) Read Article
By Joe Gyan Jr., Baton Rouge Advocate. March 17, 2008.
 

Bill would aid food programs for needy. (MAINE) Read Article
By Gary Remal, Morning Sentinel. March 15, 2008.
 

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Teenage Pregnancy - Massachusetts, Wisconsin

Less affluent areas see increase in teen births. (MASSACHUSETTS) Read Article
By Keith O'Brien, Boston Globe. March 16, 2008.
 

Using carrot or stick, the state must act. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
Editorial, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. March 15, 2008.
 

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Child Poverty - Oregon, Utah

Report: County’s kids among poorest in state. (OREGON) Read Article
By Teresa Williams, News-Review. March 14, 2008.
 

Rate of poor children in Salt Lake City leaps to 28 percent. (SALT LAKE CITY, UT) Read Article
By Julia Lyon, Salt Lake Tribune. March 16, 2008.
 

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Earned Income Tax Credit

Economic tonic. Read Article
By Janice Podsada, Hartford Courant. March 13, 2008.
 

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All Day Kindergarten - Ohio

Who will pay for all-day K? (OHIO) Read Article
By Charlie Boss and Alayna DeMartini, Columbus Dispatch. March 17, 2008.
 

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States and Health Care Spending

On health care, govs are tightening belts. Read Article
By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org. March 17, 2008.
 

Analysis: Buyer's remorse in health care. (KANSAS) Read Article
By John Hanna (Associated Press), Topeka Capital-Journal. March 17, 2008.
 

Committee changes health program. (KANSAS) Read Article
By James Carlson, Topeka Capital-Journal. March 11, 2008.
 

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State Budgets and Spending Cuts

As the economy falters, so do state budgets. Read Article
By Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times. March 17, 2008.
 

States' budget crises will hurt millions. Read Article
By Aaron C. Davis (Associated Press), Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2008.
 

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High Cost of Utilities - Maryland

The power drain. (MARYLAND) Read Article
By Kirstin Downey, Washington Post. March 16, 2008.
 

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Subprime Lending and Home Foreclosures - Minnesota, Ohio

Rural crisis differs from Twin Cities'. (MINNESOTA) Read Article
By Marisa Helms, The Forum. March 17, 2008.
 

The Credit Crisis: Subprime loans set stage for what ails economy. (OHIO) Read Article
By Mark Gillispie and Teresa Dixon Murray, Cleveland Plain Dealer. March 16, 2008.
 

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Paid Sick Leave - Connecticut

Duking it out over sick days. (CONNECTICUT) Read Article
By Sean O’Leary, Hartford Business Journal. March 17, 2008.
 

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Health Care Costs and the Uninsured

Lack of insurance hits us all. (Column) Read Article
By Michelle Singletary, Washington Post. March 16, 2008.
 

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Healthy San Francisco Plan and Restaurants

Social policy on the menu. (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) Read Article
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2008.
 

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