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  A Hectoring Robert Rector by Charley James It never occurred to me that being on food stamps because you’re too poor to feed your family is unhealthy. But Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation believes it is and thinks we should starve the wretches into submission.

A recap of this week’s equity news  ”Road Home fix falls short,” - Times-Picayune As soon as Louisiana homeowners could take stock of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, thousands of them had to turn their attention back to the Road Home program and their ongoing efforts to collect grants to repair damage caused three years ago by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Family resources, parenting quality influence children's early c... EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health Mon, 07/14/2008 - 23:00 (Society for Research in Child Development) Mothers with greater social and economic resources were found to be more supportive parents than those with fewer resources, which in turn affected young children's cognitive performance.

Family resources, parenting quality influence children's early c... http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml Mon, 07/14/2008 - 23:00 (Society for Research in Child Development) Mothers with greater social and economic resources were found to be more supportive parents than those with fewer resources, which in turn affected young children's cognitive performance.

Illinois collected record $1B-plus in child support in fiscal 2008 Illinois collected record $1B-plus in child support in fiscal 2008 Blagojevich today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) has collected a record amount of child support for Illinois children.

by Elizabeth Clark It’s time for stay-at-home moms to think outside the bun. You see, middle income mothers at least have something to start with. But low income moms have a disadvantage far greater. Is usually not the mothers fault if she has to apply for government assistance.

       In Texas, an appeals court overruled the state’s decision to remove the children of the sect, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  The appeals court has found that the CPS department had not proven evidence of immediate danger of physical health or safety of children

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Tuskegee Experiment part two ???Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:06 PM EDT (Yahoo! News) Sludge fertilizer program spurs concerns -us-news, low-income, poor, african-american, children, family, fertilizer2

A new study in the journal Health Affairs says black and Latino children are more than 12 times as likely as white children to live in “double jeopardy”—to be poor and to live in neighborhoods with limited opportunity.