- Young adults gain health insurance under new law, By N.C. Aizenman, September 21, 2011, Washington Post: “Nearly 1 million more young adults have obtained health insurance since the 2010 health-care law began requiring insurers to let adult children stay on their parents’ plans until age 26, according to government data released Wednesday. The jump in enrollment caused the share of young adults who are uninsured to drop from 34 percent at the start of 2010 to 30 percent – or 9.1 million people – by March of this year, according to a national interview survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…”
- Young adults make gains in health insurance coverage, By Kevin Sack, September 21, 2011, New York Times: “Young adults, long the group most likely to be uninsured, are gaining health coverage faster than expected since the 2010 health law began allowing parents to cover them as dependents on family policies. Three new surveys, including two released on Wednesday, show that adults under 26 made significant and unique gains in insurance coverage in 2010 and the first half of 2011. One of them, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimates that in the first quarter of 2011 there were 900,000 fewer uninsured adults in the 19-to-25 age bracket than in 2010. This was despite deep hardship imposed by the recession, which has left young adults unemployed at nearly double the rate of older Americans, with incomes sliding far faster than the national average…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty