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Work and Education
Article:
Nurith C. Aizenman and
Brigid Schulte. 2002. "Md.
Reports Broad Decline in Key Test Scores: Montgomery Officials
Continue To Question Validity of Results."
The Washington Post, A01. 1/29/02.
Summary: Standardized test scores dropped in most of Maryland's
school districts last year, with double-digit declines in an unprecedented
number of schools -- results that have prompted Montgomery County
officials to question the "validity and reliability" of the
state's premier test.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51577-2002Jan28.html
Study: Maryland State Department of Education. 2001. Maryland
School Performance Report.
Available from: Maryland State Department of Education, http://www.msp.msde.state.md.us/
Price: Free
Keywords: testing; schools
Article: Francis X. Clines. 2002. “Painful
Choices for States Facing Wider Budget Gaps.” The New York Times.
2/08/02.
Summary: With budget surpluses a memory now and tax revenues
spiraling further downward, most state governments face deepening budget
gaps as costs rise in Medicaid, education and other expensive programs,
according to a new national survey.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/politics/08STAT.html
Study: National Conference of State Legislatures. 2002. State
Fiscal Outlook For FY 2002--January Update.
Available from: National Conference of State Legislatures, http://www.ncsl.org/programs/fiscal/sfo2002.htm
Price: $25.00
Keywords: economy; federal
expenditures
Article: Associated Press. 2002.
"Students Abroad Missed Americans." The New York Times. 2/08/02.
Summary: Returning to campus after a semester in Italy, what
immediately struck Syracuse University student Marni Landis was the flag.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Returning-Students.html
Study: Institute of International Education. 2002. Open Doors
2001.
Available from: Institute of International Education, http://www.opendoorsweb.org/
Price: $42.95
Keywords: education, college;
students
Article: Bloomberg News. 2002. "Initial
Unemployment Claims Continued to Slide Last Week." The New York
Times. 2/15/02.
Summary: The number of workers filing initial applications for
jobless benefits fell for the fifth week in the last six, the Labor
Department said today, a sign that layoffs are slowing.
Location: http://nytimes.com/2002/02/15/business/15ECON.html
Study: United States Department of Labor. 2002. Unemployment
Insurance Weekly Claims Report.
Available from: United States Department of Labor, http://www.dol.gov/
Price: Free
Keywords: unemployment; national
comparison
Article: Karen W. Arenson. 2002. "Study
Faults Advanced-Placement Courses." The New York Times. 2/15/02.
Summary: A newly released study of advanced-placement mathematics
and science courses, which have become an important ingredient for
admission to elite colleges, is highly critical of the curriculums that
most of those courses cover and the way they are taught.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/education/15COUR.html
Study: National Research Council. 2002. Learning and
Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S.
High Schools.
Available from: The National Academies, http://www.nationalacademies.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: teaching methods; schools
Article: Sue Shellenbarger. 2002. "Along
With Benefits and Paychecks,
Employees Value Workplace Friends." The Wall Street Journal. 2/20/02.
Summary: As reorganizations and layoffs accelerate amid the
recession, employees are striving to hang onto hard-won networks of
workplace friends.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,4286,SB101415447899600320,00.html?collection=wsjie/30day&vql-string=(study)<in>(article-body)
Study: AON Consulting. 2002. United States @ Work, 2001.
Available from: AON Consulting, http://www.aon.com/about/publications/work/atwork_us2001.asp
Price: Free
Keywords: workplace; relationships
Article: Stephen
Barr. 2002. "Expectations of Promotion Are Not So Great, Study
Finds." The Washington Post, B02. 2/21/02.
Summary: How many people in the government get promotions? Perhaps
not as many as you would expect, a recently released study suggests.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42556-2002Feb20.html
Study: U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. 2002.Assessing
Federal Job-Seekers in a Delegated Examining Environment.
Available from: U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, http://www.mspb.gov/
Price: Free
Keywords: workforce; federal
government
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Politics and Society
Article: Religion News Source. 2002.
"Report Plays Down Growth Of Minority Faiths in U.S." The
Washington Post, B10.1/26/02.
Summary: A new report sponsored by the American Jewish Committee plays
down the growth of minority faiths in the United States, saying they have
generated more interest and pop culture buzz than actual adherents.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40766-2002Jan25.html
Study: Tom W. Smith. 2002. Religious Diversity in America: The
Emergence of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Others.
Available from: The American Jewish Committee, http://www.ajc.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: religion; national
comparison
Article: Associated Press. 2002. "US Infant Mortality Drops 20
Percent." The New York Times. 1/31/02.
Summary: Infant mortality in the United States dropped 20 percent
in the 1990s, health officials said Thursday, crediting a push for
prenatal care and new technology that helps keep low-birthweight babies
alive.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Infant-Mortality.html
Study: National Center for Health Statistics. 2002. Infant
Mortality Statistics from the 1999 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data
Set.
Available from: National Center for Health
Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_04.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: child development;
prevention
Article: D'Vera Cohn. 2002. "Cities and Suburbs Are Trading Paces." The Washington Post, A03.
2/06/02.
Summary: A
role reversal between cities and suburbs is rewriting a demographic script
that has dominated American life for decades.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29567-2002Feb5.html
Study: William
H. Frey and Alan Berube. 2002. City Families and Suburban Singles:
An Emerging Household Story from Census
2000.
Available from: The Brookings Institute, http://www.brook.edu/
Price: Free
Keywords: population; demographic
trends
Article:
D’Vera Cohn. 2002. “Foreign-Born Americans' Numbers Rise.” The
Washington Post, A05. 2/07/02.
Summary: One in five Americans were born in another country or have
at least one parent who was.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35478-2002Feb6.html
Study: Thomas McDevitt et al. 2002. Census 2000 Brief, The United
States in International Context.
Available from: Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-11.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: racial comparisons;
population
Article: Reuters. 2002. "Race, Politics
Blamed for U.S. Death Penalty Errors." The New York Times. 2/11/02.
Summary: Innocent people are more likely to be sentenced to die in
America in areas that zealously use the death penalty, have higher black
populations and where judges face political pressure, according to a study
released on Monday.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-executions.html
Study: James S. Liebman, et al. 2002. A Broken System, Part II:
Why There Is So Much Error in Capital Cases, and What Can Be Done About
It.
Available from: The Justice Project, http://justice.policy.net/cjreform/studies/
Price: Free
Keywords: death penalty; racial
bias
Article: USA Today Staff Reporter. 2002. "Triple threat to teen smoking." USA Today, 16A. 2/14/02.
Summary:
States are suddenly lining up to hit the tobacco industry where it hurts,
and teen smokers where it just might help -- right in the wallet.
Location: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020214/3856921s.htm
Study: Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 1999. Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance --- United States, 1999.
Available from: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: smoking; taxation
Article: Greg Ip. 2002. “Labor Department to
Publish A New Consumer Price Index.”
The Wall Street Journal. 2/21/02.
Summary: The Labor Department will publish a new consumer price
index beginning this summer to address some longstanding concerns that the
current index overstates inflation.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1014211366750850360,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
Study: United States Department of Labor. 2002. Consumer Price
Index: January 2002.
Available from: The United States Department of Labor, http://www.dol.gov/
Price: Free
Keywords: economy; income
distribution
Article: Associated Press. 2002. "CDC:
Diabetic Women Often Poor." The New York Times. 2/21/02.
Summary: Women with diabetes are twice as likely to be poor or
undereducated as those without the disease, the government said Thursday.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Diabetes-Women.html
Study: Center
for Disease Control and Prevention. 2002. Diabetes and Women’s Health
Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective.
Available from: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/
Price: Free
Keywords: diabetes; women
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Family Life
Article: James Schembari. 2002. "Practice
Makes Perfect (and Poorer Parents)." The New York Times. 1/27/02.
Summary: Parents seem to have been as crazed then about training
their children as baby boomers are now.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/business/yourmoney/27MIDS.html
Study: Moore, K.A., Halle, T. 1999. Preventing Problems vs.
Promoting the Positive: What Do We Want for Our Children?
Available from: Child Trends, http://www.childtrends.org/publications.asp?topic=youthdev
Price: $8.00
Keywords: sports; children
Article: Laura Sessions Stepp. 2002.
"Generation Hex: Stereotypes Hurt Today's Teens." The Washington
Post, C10. 1/31/02.
Summary: Scan any bookstore shelf for new titles about teenagers and
you'd think the younger generation is no longer going to hell in a
handbasket, it's already there.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64995-2002Jan30.html
Study: Axel Aubrun,
Ph.D., Joe Grady, Ph.D. 2000. How Americans Understand Teens: Findings
from Cognitive Interviews.
Available from: The Frame Works Institute, http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/products/youth.shtml
Price: Free
Keywords: teenagers; adolescents
Article: The Associated Press. 2002.
"Rapid Weight Gain in Infancy Studied." The New York Times.
2/4/02.
Summary: Babies who gain weight very rapidly during their first
four months may be prone to obesity later in life, new research suggests.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Infants-Weight.html
Study: Nicolas Stettler et al. 2002. Infant
Weight Gain and Childhood Overweight Status in a Multicenter, Cohort
Study.
Available from:
Pediatrics, the
journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
www.pediatrics.org
Price: $5.00
Keywords: infants; obesity
Article:
John O'Neil.
2002. " Behavior: Making the Most of Positive Role
Models." The New York Times. 2/05/02.
Summary: Mentoring programs and other efforts to provide positive
role models to adolescents in the hope of steering them away from risky
behavior have been on the rise, although over the years there has been
little solid evidence on the effectiveness of positive role models.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/health/children/05BEHA.html
Study: Antronette
K. Yancey et al. 2002. Role Models,
Ethnic Identity, and Health-Risk Behaviors in Urban Adolescents.
Available from: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine,
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v156n1/abs/poa00613.html
Price: $9.00
Keywords: adolescents; volunteering
Article: Reuters. 2002. "Work Stress,
Divorce a Deadly Combo for Men – Study." The New York Times.
2/10/02.
Summary: Chronic work stress and divorce can be a deadly
combination for men, a new study has found.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-health-stress.html
Study: Karen A. Matthews, PhD; Brooks B. Gump, PhD, MPH. 2002.
Chronic Work Stress and Marital Dissolution Increase Risk of Posttrial
Mortality in Men From the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.
Available from: Archives of Internal Medicine, http://archinte.ama-assn.org/
Price: $9.00 for non-subscribers
Keywords: health risks; divorce
Article: Donna Leinwand. 2002. "Ecstasy
Grows as Danger to Teens; As Other Drugs Dip, Club Drug Takes Off."
USA Today. 2/11/02
Summary: The number of teenagers using the club drug Ecstasy could
double in five years and is rising at such an alarming rate that leading
anti-drug advocates will launch a campaign against it today.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020211/3844497s.htm
Study: Partnership for a Drug-Free America. 2002. The
Partnership Attitude Tracking Available from: Partnership
for a Drug-Free America, http://www.drugfreeamerica.org
Price: Free
Keywords: drug use; teenagers
Article: Nina Bernstein. 2002. "In
Control Group, Most Welfare Recipients Left the Rolls Even Without
Reform." The New York Times. 2/20/02.
Summary:
They may be the last people in America to have experienced welfare as we
used to know it — 2,400 Connecticut families randomly assigned in 1996
to get public aid under old welfare rules, as a control group for one of
the nation's most ambitious welfare reform experiments.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/nyregion/20WELF.html
Study: Richard Hendra, Charles
Michalopoulos, and Dan
Bloom. 2001.Three-Year Impacts of
Connecticut’s Jobs First Welfare
Reform Initiative.
Available from: Manpower Demonstration Research
Corporation, http://www.mdrc.aa.psiweb.com/RecentPublications.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: welfare reform; unemployment
Article: Robin Toner. 2002. "2 Parents
Not Always Best for Children, Study Finds." The New York Times.
2/21/02.
Summary: Two- partner households may not necessarily be better for
poor children than single-parent households, researchers from Johns
Hopkins have found.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/national/21WELF.html
Study: Andrew J. Cherlin and Paula Fomby. 2002. A Closer Look
at Changes in Children’s Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families.
Available from: Johns Hopkins University, http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/index.html
Price: Free
Keywords: poverty, family
composition
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Health and Reproductive Issues
Article: Traci Watson. 2002. “Smog Can Cause
Asthma, Research of Kids Suggests.” USA Today, 3A. 2/1/02.
Summary: Scientists found that children living in high-smog areas
were much more likely to develop asthma if they were avid athletes.
Location: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020201/3821820s.htm
Study: Rob McConnell et al. 2002. Asthma in Exercising Children
Exposed to Ozone: A Cohort Study.
Available from: The Lancet, http://www.lancet.com
Price: $15.00
Keywords: health; child
development
Article: Associated. 2002. "New Report
Reaffirms Mammogram Benefit." The Washington Post, A02. 2/1/02.
Summary: A team from Cornell Medical Center has taken a fresh look
at data that caused some investigators to doubt that mammography saves
lives and has concluded that there is a significant benefit over the long
term.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6222-2002Jan31.html
Study: Olli S Miettinen, Claudia I Henschke, et al. 2002.
Mammographic screening: no reliable supporting evidence?
Available from: The Lancet, http://www.lancet.com
Price: Free
Keywords: cancer, breast; mammograms
Article: Rita Rubin. 2002. “Hormone Therapy
can Lower Energy Levels.” USA Today. 2/06/02.
Summary: Postmenopausal women who aren't having hot flashes may
feel worse if they go on hormones, a study out today says.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020206/3831800s.htm
Study: Mark A. Hlatky
et al. 2002. Quality-of-Life
and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women After Receiving Hormone
Therapy.
Available from: Journal of the American Medical Association,
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html
Price: Free
Keywords: hormone
replacement therapy; health risks
Article: John O'Neil. 2002. "Side
Effects: Hysterectomy: Long-Term Fatigue." The New York Times.
2/05/02.
Summary: Fatigue is the most common, most debilitating and
longest-lasting symptom for women recovering from hysterectomies,
according to a new study, which suggests that physicians take a more
active role in counseling and treating patients after surgery.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/health/womenshealth/05SIDE.html
Study: Alan H. DeCherney et al. 2002. Postoperative Fatigue
Negatively Impacts the Daily Lives of Patients Recovering From
Hysterectomy.
Available from: Obstetrics and Gynecology, http://www.greenjournal.org/gj01-02.cfm
Price: Available to subscribers
Keywords: health, women; health
risks
Article: Rick Weiss. 2002. “Multiple Fears
About IVF Births.” The Washington Post, HE01. 2/12/02.
Summary: Children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are
significantly more likely to have neurological complications and
developmental delays -- but virtually all those problems are linked to
IVF's high prevalence of twin and triplet pregnancies, according to a new
Swedish study.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59021-2002Feb11.html
Study: B. Strömberg, et al. 2002. Neurological Sequelae in
Children Born After In-vitro Fertilization: A Population-Based Study.
Available from: The Lancet, http://www.thelancet.com/journal
Price: Free
Keywords: pregnancy; infants
Article: Marilyn Chase. 2002. “Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Appear Sharply Underreported.” The Wall Street
Journal. 2/13/02.
Summary: A study of young adults in Baltimore found so many
undiagnosed cases of sexually transmitted disease that the researchers
believe the number of undetected STD illnesses in the U.S. may exceed the
number of officially reported cases.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,4286,SB101355238442683920,00.html?mod=health%5Fwsj%5Fhs
Study: Charles F. Turner, et al. 2002.
Untreated Gonococcal and Chlamydial
Infection in a Probability Sample of Adults.
Available from: The Journal of the American Medical
Association, http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n6/abs/joc10483.html
Price: $9.00
Keywords: sexually
transmitted disease; diagnosis
Article:
Denise Grady. 2002. “New Evidence of Cancer Risk in Hormone
Therapy Study.” The New York Times. 2/13/02.
Summary:
A new study adds to the increasing evidence that women who take hormone
therapy for five years or more after menopause have an increased risk of
breast cancer, especially a type known as lobular tumors, which account
for 5 percent to 10 percent of all breast cancers.
Location:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/health/13BREA.html
Study:
Chi-Ling Chen, et al. 2002. Hormone Replacement Therapy in Relation to
Breast Cancer.
Available
from:
The Journal of the American Medical Association,
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n6/abs/joc10761.html
Price:
Abstract free; full text $9.00
Keywords: hormone
replacement therapy; cancer
Article: Associated Press. 2002. " Study:
Drug May Lower Heart Risks." The New York Times. 2/19/02.
Summary: An osteoporosis drug marketed as an estrogen alternative
may significantly lower the risk of heart attacks in postmenopausal women
prone to heart disease, a study shows.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Osteoporosis-Drug-Heart.html
Study: Elizabeth
Barrett-Connor, MD; Deborah Grady, MD, et al. 2002. Raloxifene and
Cardiovascular Events in Osteoporotic Postmenopausal Women.
Available from: The Journal of the American Medical
Association, http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: heart
disease; osteoporosis
Article: Associated Press. 2002. "Study
Faults States on Birth Defects." The New York Times. 2/20/02.
Summary: Only eight states are doing an excellent job of tracking
birth defects, the leading cause of death among infants in the United
States, a study concluded Wednesday.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-Birth-Defects.html
Study: Trust for
America's Health. 2002. Birth Defects Tracking and Prevention: Too Many
States Are Not Making the Grade.
Available from: Trust for America's Health, http://healthyamericans.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: birth defects; prevention
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Poverty and Income
Article:
Sally Squires. 2002. "Medicare
Widens Funding for Diet Help." The Washington Post, HE01. 1/29/02.
Summary: Nearly 5 million seniors just got a free pass to
seek help in eating more healthfully: Medicare began covering medical
nutrition therapy on Jan. 1 for many recipients with diabetes and kidney
diseases.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50871-2002Jan28.html
Study: Committee on Nutrition Services for Medicare
Beneficiaries, Food and Nutrition Board. 2000. The Role of Nutrition in
Maintaining Health in the Nation's Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of
Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population.
Available from: The Institute of Medicine, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9741.html
Price: $49.00
Keywords: medicare; diet
Article: Wall Street Journal Online News
Roundup. 2002. "Unemployment Rate Declines, Raising Hopes for
Recovery." The Wall Street Journal. 2/1/02.
Summary: Economic readings released Friday raised hopes of a
budding recovery, including an unexpected drop in the U.S. unemployment
rate last month.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1012569219341586800,00.html
Study: The Department of Labor. 2002. Employment Situation
Summary.
Available from: The Department of Labor, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: unemployment; economy
Article: Associated Press. 2002. "
Private Lenders Criticize Fannie Mae." The New York Times. 2/06/02.
Summary: Blacks got 14 percent of Atlanta primary mortgage lenders'
business in 2000, but represented just 11 percent of the portfolios of the
giant government-sponsored mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
a private analysis of lending data says.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Minority-Mortgages.html
Study: FM Watch. 2002. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Failing the
American Dream in the Nation’s Cities.
Available from: FM Watch, http://www.fmwatch.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: housing; racial
comparisons
Article: Richard Rothstein. 2002.
"Linking Infant Mortality to Schooling and Stress." The New York
Times. 2/06/02.
Summary: Policy makers rarely examine their theory that school
improvement alone can drive progress in health care, housing and income
inequality.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/education/06LESS.html
Study: Kenneth
G. Keppel et al. 2002.
Healthy People 2000: Trends
in Racial and Ethnic-Specific Rates for the Health Status Indicators:
United States, 1990-98.
Available from: Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/02news/healthimpr.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: infants; health,
reproductive
Article: Kenneth R. Harney. 2002. "Tax
Benefits Tilted To Aid Homeowners." The Washington Post, H01. 2/9/02.
Summary: How big are the annual tax benefits Congress bestows on
Americans who own their homes rather than rent? And who, among homeowners,
receives the bulk of those tax goodies?
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46357-2002Feb8.html
Study: Joint Committee on Taxation. 2002. Estimates of Federal
Tax Expenditures for Fiscal Years 2002-2006.
Available from: Joint Committee on Taxation, http://www.house.gov/jct/
Price: Free
Keywords: home-owners; taxation
Article: Milt Freudenheim. 2002.
"Personal Costs for Medicare H.M.O.'s Rise." The New York Times.
2/14/02
Summary:
Elderly and disabled members of Medicare H.M.O.'s used nearly 50 percent
more of their own money on average for medical care in 2001 than they did
three years ago, health care researchers said yesterday.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/14/health/14CARE.html
Study: Lori Achman and Marsha Gold.
2002. Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses for Medicare HMO
Beneficiaries: Estimates by Health Status, 1999-2001.
Available from: Mathematics Policy Research, http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/
Price: Free
Keywords: medicare; health
care costs
Article:
Walter Shapiro. 2002. "Unemployment
System Stuck in Confusing Tangle." USA Today, 6A. 2/22/02.
Summary: The Senate, before it left town last week,
unanimously approved the standard anti-recession remedy of a 13-week
extension of unemployment benefits.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020222/3886141s.htm
Study: Wendell Primus, Isaac Shapiro, and Jessica Goldberg.
2002. House Avoids Clean Extension of Unemployment Benefits as 80,000
Unemployed Workers Exhaust Their Benefits Each Week.
Available from: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, http://www.cbpp.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: unemployment; federal
expenditures
Article:
Associated Press. 2002. " Study: Medicare Wrongly Paid
Billions." The New York Times. 2/21/02.
Summary: Medicare sent out an estimated $12.1 billion last year in
improper payments, including many cases where beneficiaries were
unnecessarily hospitalized, new figures show.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Medicare-Waste.html
Study: Department of Health and Human Services. 2002. Improper
Fiscal Year 2001 Medicare Fee-for-Service Payments.
Available from: Department of Health and Human Services, http://www.hhs.gov/
Price: Free
Keywords: Medicare; health
care costs
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Of Interest
Article: Kate Stone Lombardi. 2002.
"Restless Night, Hard School Day: A Bedtime Story." The New York
Times. 1/30/02.
Summary: Yet new studies show that a significant number of children
ranging in age from 5 to 10 struggle to get a good night's sleep, and many
educators seem to be paying attention to the problem.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/education/30SLEE.html
Keywords: children; health
Article: Elizabeth Olson. 2002.
"Switzerland Tells Its Men: Wash That Pot! Mop That Floor!" The
New York Times. 2/1/02.
Summary: A new study shows that Swiss men, at best, do less than
half the household chores — not a surprise in this traditional country,
or in comparison with their counterparts in neighboring European nations.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/international/europe/01SWIS.html
Keywords: international
comparison; gender comparisons
Article: Laurence McQuillan. 2002. "
Proposed status of fetus as 'unborn child' draws protest." USA Today,
6A. 2/01/02.
Summary: The abortion debate reignited Thursday as the Bush
administration proposed allowing states to classify a fetus as an ''unborn
child'' to make it easier for low-income women to receive prenatal care
under a government health program.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020201/3821759s.htm
Keywords: health insurance;
abortion
Article: Toni Locy. 2002. "FBI Appoints
Training Director: She Predicts End of 'Old-boy Network'." USA Today.
2/06/02.
Summary: FBI Director Robert Mueller's efforts to redirect the
bureau's mission toward preventing terrorism continued Tuesday with the
appointment of a new training director, who becomes the FBI's
highest-ranking African-American woman.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020206/3831757s.htm
Keywords: workforce; professional
women
Article: Amy Goldstein. 2002. “Welfare: New
Plans, Old Budget.” The Washington Post, A01. 2/07/02.
Summary: The Bush administration began yesterday to sketch out its
plans for revising the nation's welfare system, calling on states to find
new ways to promote marriage and to help poor workers secure better jobs
-- but without providing additional federal money for those priorities.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35857-2002Feb6.html
Keywords: welfare; federal
expenditures
Article: Robert Pear. 2002. “Democrats
Criticizing Bush Budget on Education.” The New York Times. 2/13/02.
Summary: Congressional Democrats complained today that
President Bush's budget provided far less money than Mr. Bush promised
when he signed a landmark education bill just five weeks ago.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/politics/13EDUC.html
Keywords: education; federal
expenditures
Article: Joan Biskupic. 2002. "Voucher
Schools Under Scrutiny Supreme Court Will Decide Fate of Publicly Financed
Tuition Programs." USA Today, 3A. 2/15/02.
Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday
in a dispute that will determine whether voucher programs such as
Cleveland's can take root throughout the nation or whether they must be
abandoned because they violate the Constitution's requisite separation of
church and state.
Location: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020215/3862919s.htm
Keywords: school vouchers;
government
Article: Julianne Malveaux. 2002. "More
Jobs, Not More Marriages, Lift Poor." USA Today, 15A. 2/22/02.
Summary: The Bush administration is cutting job-training
programs even though unemployment rates are up. Meanwhile, it hopes to
spend up to $100 million a year to promote marriage.
Location: http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20020222/3886077s.htm
Keywords: poverty; marriage
Article: Nora
Boustany. 2002. "A
Pioneering Woman As Political Prisoner." The Washington Post, A20.
2/22/02.
Summary: Kadeer, a pioneering entrepreneur, championed the
empowerment of women through investment opportunities and funded literacy
programs in China's largely Muslim Uighur region. She was chosen to attend
the U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing as part of the official
Chinese delegation in 1995 to showcase her achievements.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49533-2002Feb21.html
Keywords: politics; women
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