Behavioral health workforce faces critical challenges in meeting population needs
Sanders Slams US Inequality as Report Finds Nearly Half of Americans Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
ALICE—which stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed—is a term United Way developed to describe the population that is above the federal poverty level but still struggling to pay for basic expenses. In addition to the 16.1 million American families living below the poverty line, 34.7 million U.S. households fit the group’s ALICE classification.
Food-Insecure Households Likelier to Have Chronic Diseases, Higher Health Costs
Percentage of Adults Aged ≥60 Years Who Ever Had the Shingles Vaccine,* by Sex — National Health Interview Survey, 2008–2016†
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Tobacco Use
Congress Should Increase HUD Funding in 2019 to Prevent Voucher Cuts, Help Children Escape Poverty
Measuring Ireland’s Progress, 2016
Americans’ Confidence in Their Ability to Pay for Health Care Is Falling
America’s incarceration rate is at a two-decade low
FIGURE 2. Age-adjusted rate* of deaths from falls† among persons aged ≥65 years, by state and overall — United States, 2007 and 2016§
CDC
Class of 2018: College edition
EPI
More than a million Millennials are becoming moms each year
As Americans age, Medicare will pay for a growing share of the nation’s prescription drugs
Illicit Opioids: While Greater Attention Given to Combating Synthetic Opioids, Agencies Need to Better Assess their Efforts
Happy Mother’s Day 2018: Ireland
Compared to majority white schools, majority black schools are more likely to have security staff
Children & young people’s mental health
Association Between Hearing Aid Use and Health Care Use and Cost Among Older Adults With Hearing Loss
Children who live in unsafe communities, 2015-16 (interactive – click here)
At least 78 homeless people died in UK over winter, figures reveal
Prison records from 1800s Georgia show mass incarceration’s racially charged beginning
Who was President from 1993-2001?
Older People Working Longer, Earning More
Trends in Mortality Among Females in the United States, 1900–2010: Progress and Challenges
The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent
Opportunity-Boosting Job Preparedness Takes Significant Investment, Evidence Shows
A New World Health Era
Rising Obesity in the United States Is a Public Health Crisis
The State Pension Funding Gap: 2016
2020 census will ask about same-sex marriages for the first time
Alcohol Taxes: An Evidence-Based Strategy
Many Working People Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements
Census of Population and Housing: Estimating homelessness, 2016
5 facts about religion in Saudi Arabia
Chairman Conaway’s Farm Bill Would Increase Food Insecurity and Hardship
Spending on opioid addiction and overdose treatment has increased each year in the last decade
Asylum claims in Canada reached highest level in decades in 2017
The Opioid Epidemic and Medicaid’s Role in Facilitating Access to Treatment
Economic Security and Health Insurance Programs Reduce Poverty and Provide Access to Needed Care
Shoveling resources into the bottomless DoD trough
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant (interactive – click here)
How Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm Children
Most Hispanic parents speak Spanish to their children, but this is less the case in later immigrant generations
10 Tips for Evaluating Communication Campaigns
Insecurity in modern work: policy overlooks the ‘chronically precarious’ workers
Viral Suppression Among Youth and People Who Inject Drugs Is Improving, But Results Are Still Below the National Average
More than 20% of U.S. Kids Have Not Had Preventive Dental Care
Part IV: Economic Security Programs Provide Long-Term Positive Effects
HIV and the Opioid Epidemic: 5 Key Points
Part III: Economic Security and Health Programs Support Work
First Nations People, Métis and Inuit in Canada: Diverse and Growing Populations,
Statistics Canada
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