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HEY TOOL Clarifying the Child Welfare Worker�s Role HEY�s Recommendations to Dispel Confusion

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:59:01 -0500

Contributing organization(s): Honoring Emancipated Youth. The Child Welfare Worker is supposed to be the central professional managing a youth's case. However, as a youth prepares for independence, their needs will increase as they consider their current placement and their plans for the future. With the many plans to be made, many misconceptions develop about roles and responsibilities. This document can help the youth and their supporters more clearly understand the limitations and roles of others, and provides simple recommendations to all parties on how to best serve youth. It may also be relevant to upper management as they make decisions on how to structure the emancipation processes....

Health Care Doesn't Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg: 29 Reasons for Optimism from Comparisons between Countries and U.S. States

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:59:01 -0500

Contributing organization(s): American Human Development Project. Residents of 29 countries live longer lives, on average, than Americans -- while spending up to eight times less on their health. A new report by American Human Development Project ranks the 50 states and Washington, D.C. against 80 countries in the world on life expectancy at birth, infant death rates, and annual per person spending on health care. The results powerfully demonstrate how better care and reining in costs are not incompatible....

Reconciliation and Representation: The Share of the Population Represented by the Democratic Majority

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:01 -0500

Contributing organization(s): Center for Economic and Policy Research. With the debate over health care dragging on, it is becoming increasingly likely that the Senate will pass a bill through the reconciliation process, requiring just a simple majority rather than the super-majority needed to break a filibuster. This paper shows that if this path is taken, senators who represent the vast majority of the nation's population will have supported the bill. This assessment holds even if several of the senators who have indicated serious reservations end up voting against it....

The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:59:01 -0500

Contributing organization(s): Center for Economic and Policy Research. The Great Recession has left tens of millions of families facing unemployment, underemployment and the threat of losing their home. However, concerns over the deficit threaten to derail efforts to turn around the economy and spur employment. This report attempts to correct many of the misperceptions about the deficit that have brought the issue to the center of national debate. In a time when cogent, effective policies are needed to address the suffering stemming from the economic downturn, the tactics of the deficit hawks distract the public and policy makers from the policies necessary to bring the economy back to full employment....

Review of Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:59:01 -0500

Contributing organization(s): Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. Scott's review of this report finds that it lacks the evidence to support the call for an expansion of school choice. Scott identifies three major shortcomings in the report: it relies too heavily on research in progress and research produced by advocacy organizations; it neglects prior research concerning the nature of parental choice; and it fails to acknowledge that unconstrained school choice has segregative effects....

City of Milwaukee's Fiscal Condition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place