Poverty Dispatch - March 24, 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:

• Food Stamp Enrollment - Ohio
• Affordable Housing - New Orleans, Washington, D.C.
• Income, Health, and Life Expectancy
• Medicaid and Doctors' Reimbursement Rates - California
• Rising Health Care Costs
• Inflation and Costs of Living
• Increasing Need for Food Assistance - Michigan
• Report: The Working Poor - New Jersey
• Providing Health Care to the Homeless
• Programs for Homeless People and Families
• Pay Day Lending
• Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program - Pennsylvania
• States and Federal Anti-crime Grants

Today's Articles:

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Food Stamp Enrollment - Ohio

Food stamps double since '01. (OHIO) Read Article
By Catherine Candisky, Columbus Dispatch. March 22, 2008.
 

Record number of food stamps used. (OHIO) Read Article
Associated Press, Zanesville Times Recorder. March 22, 2008.
 

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Affordable Housing - New Orleans, Washington, D.C.

Market crunch threatens N.O. affordable housing efforts. (NEW ORLEANS, LA) Read Article
By Rebecca Mowbray, New Orleans Times-Picayune. March 22, 2008.
 

Washington's grand experiment to rehouse the poor. (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Read Article
By Erik Eckholm, New York Times. March 21, 2008.
 

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Income, Health, and Life Expectancy

Gap in life expectancy widens for the nation. Read Article
By Robert Pear, New York Times. March 23, 2008.
 

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Medicaid and Doctors' Reimbursement Rates - California

An exodus from Medi-Cal. (CALIFORNIA) Read Article
By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times. March 24, 2008.
 

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Rising Health Care Costs

Rising health costs cut into wages. Read Article
By Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post. March 24, 2008.
 

Health care costs a nagging worry for Detroiters. (DETROIT, MI) Read Article
By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press. March 24, 2008.
 

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Inflation and Costs of Living

Inflation hits the poor hardest. Read Article
By Neil Irwin and Alejandro Lazo, Washington Post. March 21, 2008.
 

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Increasing Need for Food Assistance - Michigan

Food pantries struggle to meet rising demand. (MICHIGAN) Read Article
By Mary L. Lawrence, Saginaw News. March 24, 2008.
 

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Report: The Working Poor - New Jersey

Working families struggle, despite NJ's overall wealth. (NEW JERSEY) Read Article
Associated Press, Star-Ledger. March 24, 2008.
 

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Providing Health Care to the Homeless

Street medicine's hard choices. Read Article
By Susan Partovi, Los Angeles Times. March 23, 2008.
 

The Homeless: Hidden and without health care. Read Article
By Yvette Cabrera, Orange County Register. March 18, 2008.
 

The Homeless: Working families pushed onto streets. Read Article
By Yvette Cabrera, Orange County Register. March 20, 2008.
 

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Programs for Homeless People and Families

Homeless program may die. (KENTUCKY) Read Article
By Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal. March 24, 2008.
 

Homeless turn lives around in programs. (MISSOURI) Read Article
By Linda Leicht, Springfield News-Leader. March 21, 2008.
 

Teaching homeless tots the ABCs. (SEATTLE, WA) Read Article
By Paul Nyhan, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 20, 2008.
 

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Pay Day Lending

'Pay day' loans exacerbate U.S. housing crisis. Read Article
By Nick Carey, San Diego Union-Tribune. March 24, 2008.
 

Ohio report: Payday lending shops' growth slows, reach expands. (OHIO) Read Article
Dayton Business Journal. March 21, 2008.
 

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Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program - Pennsylvania

Utilities, agencies blast cut to heating assistance funds. (PENNSYLVANIA) Read Article
By Kim Leonard, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. March 22, 2008.
 

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States and Federal Anti-crime Grants

Federal crime-fighting cuts cause alarm. Read Article
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org. March 24, 2008.
 

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