Poverty Dispatch - June 15, 2009

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 irppubs@ssc.wisc.edu.

Today's Topics in the News:

• Privatization of Social Services - Indiana
• Economic Stimulus and Food Stamps
• Early Childhood Education - Ontario, CA
• Report: High School Graduation Rates
• Indian Health Service System
• U.S. Health Care Reform
• Subsidized Wireless Phone Service for the Low-income
• Opinion: The Newly Poor and the Persistently Poor
• State Minimum Wage - Illinois
• Recession and State Budgets
• Workers' Remittances to Mexico
• Professional Chefs and Food Banks
• Audit of Child Care Subsidy Program - Wisconsin

Today's Articles:

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Privatization of Social Services - Indiana

Welfare failures detailed. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Eric Bradner, Evansville Courier and Press. June 1, 2009.
 

Local lawmakers want work on state's FSSA modernization halted. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Eric Bradner, Evansville Courier and Press. June 12, 2009.
 

Welfare audit bills renewed by frustrated lawmakers. (INDIANA) Read Article
By Eric Bradner, Evansville Courier and Press. June 14, 2009.
 

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Economic Stimulus and Food Stamps

Stimulus Watch: $25 check may cost you food stamps. Read Article
By Matt Apuzzo (Associated Press), Sacramento Bee. June 15, 2009.
 

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Early Childhood Education - Ontario, CA

Education report calls for all-day kindergarten, sweeping reforms. (ONTARIO, CA) Read Article
By Joe Friesen, Globe and Mail. June 15, 2009.
 

Take over daycares, Ontario schools told. (ONTARIO, CA) Read Article
By Kristin Rushowy, Hamilton Spectator. June 14, 2009.
 

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Report: High School Graduation Rates

Steps to improve graduation rate get positive results. (TENNESSEE) Read Article
By Jaime Sarrio, The Tennessean. June 15, 2009.
 

The tassel turns. (OKLAHOMA) Read Article
Editorial, Tulsa World. June 10, 2009.
 

Report: South Florida graduation rates are low. Read Article
By Akilah Johnson, South Florida Sun-Sentinel. June 9, 2009.
 

Graduation rate up. (INDIANA) Read Article
Editorial, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. June 13, 2009.
 

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Indian Health Service System

Promises, promises: Indian health care needs unmet. Read Article
By Mary Clare Jalonick (Associated Press), Washington Post. June 14, 2009.
 

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U.S. Health Care Reform

Trims to Medicare, Medicaid are proposed to help fund reform. Read Article
By Lori Montgomery and Scott Wilson, Washington Post. June 14, 2009.
 

Obama takes his health care case to the public. Read Article
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, New York Times. June 11, 2009.
 

Health plan may mean payment cuts. Read Article
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, New York Times. June 13, 2009.
 

Obama is pressed to tax health benefits. Read Article
By Lori Montgomery and Ceci Connolly, Washington Post. June 15, 2009.
 

Obama outlines $313 billion in Medicare, Medicaid spending cuts. Read Article
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times. June 14, 2009.
 

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Subsidized Wireless Phone Service for the Low-income

Providing cellphones for the poor. Read Article
By Matt Richtel, New York Times. June 14, 2009.
 

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Opinion: The Newly Poor and the Persistently Poor

Too poor to make the news. (Opinion) Read Article
By Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times. June 13, 2009.
 

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State Minimum Wage - Illinois

Some bemoan hike in wages; state minimum goes up to $8 an hour July 1. (ILLINOIS) Read Article
By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat. June 15, 2009.
 

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Recession and State Budgets

Recession pounds states' budgets. Read Article
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org. June 15, 2009.
 

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Workers' Remittances to Mexico

In Mexico, the U.S. downturn hits home. Read Article
By William Booth, Washington Post. June 14, 2009.
 

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Professional Chefs and Food Banks

Finding purpose in serving the needy, not just haute cuisine. Read Article
By Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times. June 13, 2009.
 

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Audit of Child Care Subsidy Program - Wisconsin

State audit finds nearly $20 million in fraud. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. June 12, 2009.
 

Child-care providers with criminal past getting licenses, state funds. (WISCONSIN) Read Article
By Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. June 13, 2009.
 

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