Dick Batchelor – Social-Service Workers, Clients Rally to Decry Funding Cuts
Dick Batchelor – Social-service workers, clients rally to decry funding cuts – Dozens of social-service workers and their clients rallied in Orlando on Friday to warn of “Draconian” legislative cuts targeting state-funded programs for m…
David Fukuzawa: To improve children's education, we must also improve their …
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Instead, Michigan has seen a decrease in already-minimal funding for eliminating lead poisoning across the state. Federal dollars that state health departments have … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that Michigan children's …
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A potential pandemic awaits its season (Commentary)
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Not only is the treatment for MERS intensive and complicated, but health-care workers must carefully protect themselves so as to minimize the risk of contracting or unwittingly spreading infection. If in-hospital spread is occurring within state-of-the …
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Report: One out of Five Arrests Involve Someone on Probation or Parole
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The study, which was funded by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Fund for Nonviolence and the Rosenberg Foundation, answers one question that to date has been a matter of …
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Medicaid Programs Vary in Coverage of Preventive Care, Report Says
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But state Medicaid plans are not required to cover such care for adults already enrolled in Medicaid—and this report suggests that those adults will not have access to the full range of preventive services. “Preventive services save lives by detecting …
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