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Research Report Pulling Off the Budget Deal: A Long Way To Go
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains how the budget deal that will likely be reached will remain short of its goals, due to numerous technical difficulties in reaching numerical targets in the deal.
Brief Segregation by The Numbers
[Washington Post] Poor blacks are four times more likely than the non-black poor to live in the District and 14 times more likely to live in a neighborhood with a high concentration of poverty.
Research Report New Data on Sexual Behaviors of Teenage Males
The percentage of teenage males who have ever had sexual intercourse has declined since 1988, while the use of contraception at first intercourse among teenage males increased, according to new data from the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males. These findings parallel trends for teenage girls
Brief Medicaid: Overview of a Complex Program
This brief summarizes Medicaid financing, eligibility, services, and spending patterns. Within the federal guidelines, states have considerable flexibility in establishing their own financial eligibility criteria, benefits packages, and payment policies. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
Brief Younger People with Disabilities and State Health Policy
Younger persons with disabilities accounted for nearly one-third of the extraordinary growth in Medicaid spending over the 1988-1995 period. This population is critical to state efforts to control Medicaid expenditures and to reform health care. The brief discusses service delivery issues: the
Research Report Community Building
This report is the product of a series of seminars which examined the historic movements out of which today's community practice is evolving. Drawing on material from the seminars as well as the growing literature describing recent community building efforts, the authors explain what community
Research Report Expanding Insurance Coverage for Children
This monograph considers ways of expanding health insurance coverage for children. It opens with a discussion of the current coverage of pregnant women and children and the estimated costs of extending coverage to all or selected groups of children. It also explores trends in coverage and looks at
Brief Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
This report examines the relationship between an individual's socioeconomic status and the status of his or her parentsintergenerational mobilityand the reasons for any change in this relationship over time. The paper compares intergenerational mobility in the U.S. to that of other countries and