News you can use: the March 17th Poverty Dispatch

Posted March 19th, 2008 by admin

Just in: The March 17th Poverty Dispatch from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Follow the link to read the following stories:

    * 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