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Mental Health Conditions Negatively Affect Social And Economic Opportunity
A recent study revealed that adults in the City of St. Louis spend an average of 4.5 days a month in poor mental health, with St. Louis County not lagging far behind, at an average of 3 days a month. Read More »
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OECD 2012 Economic Survey of the United States: The United States Needs to Foster Education and Innovation to Keep Its Cutting Edge
So what does an economic survey of the United States have to do with health care? Simply that we cannot expect to have a superior health care system that serves everyone well if we don't fulfill our citizen obligation to demand greater government oversight and intervention in education, employment, and especially in the intolerable rise in income inequality. Current trends in the United States are not encouraging.
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The Majority Of Public School Students In The South And West Are Poor.
For the first time since the 1960s and the desegregation of public schools the majority of children in public schools in the South and the West are poor. That’s according to a new study released by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), which also indicated that such trends are likely to spread across the whole country if trends continue.
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To Be Young, Unemployed, or Working for Free in the USA
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the official unemployment rate among young people (ages 16 to 19 years) is 24.9 percent, up from 23 percent a year ago. And, according to the Associated Press, the weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge.
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Tying health problems to rise in home foreclosures
The threat of losing your home is stressful enough to make you ill, it stands to reason. Now two economists have measured just how unhealthy the foreclosure crisis has been in some of the hardest-hit areas of the U.S. Read More »
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U.S. Economic Woes Ripple All the Way to Latin America
The national recession didn’t just hit people living in the U.S. – it’s made it more difficult for people to pay for medical bills in poor countries like Honduras, new University of Michigan Health System research shows. Read More »
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Veterans Still Face Disproportionate Unemployment
Despite fedeal assistance programs amounting to $12 billion during the last fiscal, veterans who served after Sept. 2001 are disproportionately unemployed, says the Congressional Research Report. A large reason for that may be the relative youth of the recent veteran population, the report says. Read More »
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Wake Forest Baptist To Overhaul Operating Model, Strategy
Facing a possible gap between operating revenue and expenses of up to 20 percent by 2015, Winston-Salem-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will soon take steps to overhaul its cost structure, operations and overall strategy as part of a continued effort to provide value-based, accountable care, according to a statement. Read More »
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Who Are The Long-Term Unemployed?
It's been over four years since the recovery officially began, but there are still over four million people who are long-term unemployed. That's four million people who can't find work even after looking for six months or more -- four million people who can't even get companies to look at their resumes anymore. Read More »
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Why Robert Reich Cares So Passionately About Economic Inequality
Friday night's NewsHour featured about six-and-a-half minutes of an interview with newly minted movie star Robert Reich, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. We thought some folks might be interested in the entire discussion and therefore are presenting it in two installments, edited slightly for ease of reading.
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Yep, Being A Young, American Adult Is A Financial Nightmare
Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. But you know who poverty is especially common among? Young adults. Read More »
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