Low-income children still short on good dental care, By Pohla Smith, June 16, 2010, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Nearly 104,000 children in Allegheny County are covered by Medicaid, yet even though they are required to enroll in a managed care organization, a new study suggests a significant percentage of them did not see a dentist in 2009. The online report by the Pennsylvania Medicaid Policy Center at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health found that Medical Assistance covered about 1 million, or 35.5 percent, of all Pennsylvania children last year. Only 42.8 percent of children enrolled in managed care had an annual visit to a dentist…”
Day: June 17, 2010
Rates of Family Homelessness in the US
- Families in homeless shelters increased 7% in ’09, By Marisol Bello, June 15, 2010, USA Today: “The recession continued to take its toll as more families with children became homeless for the second straight year, a U.S. government report shows. The number of families in homeless shelters increased 7% to 170,129 from fiscal year 2008 through fiscal year 2009, a report released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found. At the same time, the overall number of homeless people in shelters fell 2% to 1.56 million. ‘As the nation’s housing and job markets show encouraging signs of recovery, there are still far too many families who are on the brink of becoming homeless or have fallen into our shelter system,’ Secretary Shaun Donovan said in a statement…”
- More families are homeless and on the streets, By Tami Luhby, June 16, 2010, CNNMoney.com: “The Great Recession drove more families into homeless shelters in 2009, a new federal report has found. Some 170,000 families needed shelter last year, up from 159,000 in 2008, according to an annual survey from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. There were 535,000 people in those families. Over the course of the past year, the number of people in homeless shelters dipped slightly to 1.56 million, from 1.6 million a year earlier. This translates into one of every 200 Americans. On a single night in January 2009, there were just over 643,000 homeless people nationwide. But, there are fewer people actually on the streets. More than 60% of people were in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs, while 37% were on the street or in other places not meant for human habitation. In 2008, some 42% were living on the streets…”