- College students living off campus inflate poverty rates in Eugene, Corvallis, Portland, By Betsy Hammond, July 29, 2013, The Oregonian: “A new Census Bureau study shows that college students who live off campus and earn little to nothing while in school make the poverty rates look high around the University of Oregon and Oregon State University…”
- Census Bureau: Poverty rates drop when college students aren’t counted, By Richard Stradling, July 29, 2013, News & Observer: “Poverty rates drop in college towns like Chapel Hill, Greenville and even Raleigh when you don’t count students living off campus, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The government already doesn’t count college students living in dorms when it figures poverty rates. But students who rent houses or apartments off campus are traditionally counted in poverty statistics, even if their only income comes from weekend fast-food jobs and their parents are paying most of their bills…”
Month: July 2013
Child Welfare System – Nebraska
Nebraska making progress on child welfare, By Martha Stoddard, July 26, 2013, Omaha World-Herald: “Nebraska continues making slow, steady progress in reducing the number of children under state oversight. New data show the number of state wards has dropped 13.6 percent over nearly 15 months — from 6,121 children in early March 2012 to 5,284 as of July 15. Thomas Pristow, director of the State Division of Children and Family Services, said the change represents progress for Nebraska’s child welfare system, which has undergone numerous upheavals over the past four years…”
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Anger in the area over cuts to food stamps, By Alfred Lubrano, July 22, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer: “For the first time in 40 years, Congress has decided to give subsidies to farmers – many of them rich – while offering nothing to fund the food-stamp program that experts believe keeps poor Americans from starving. The decision last week comes after conservative Republicans in the House blocked a bill that would have slashed $20 billion from the food-stamp budget, saying the cut was too small. The antipoverty community in Philadelphia and throughout the nation is convulsed with anger. It is convinced that it is witnessing a coordinated GOP effort to gut the food-stamp program, considered by some the most important part of the U.S. safety net…”