Health and Food
Workin’ hard for the money! Er…food.
Should kids have to “work” to get free food (i.e. out of the home, not from the family, government sponsored?) If they are given handouts, does this teach them that food is expected at no cost and will always be provided for no work? It’s a delicate balance between feeding kids who are hungry and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How hungry?
My job this summer at the Boys and Girls Club in Hamilton is mainly so I can facilitate their Summer Feeding Program through the Ohio Assoc. of Second Harvest Foodbanks. First of all, since it’s a government program, there is more paperwork than I could have imagined and makes me shake my fist at bureaucracy. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It begins with the babies…Healthcare thinking generations
Just a quick point brought to us by Peter Leigburg, who is the director of a network of health clinics that serve the poor around Denver and Boulder. He is fighting to provide care for those in need after healthcare options for families in need of prenatal care were reduced in 2004. A baby born [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Study on Healthcare Insurance for the Working Poor
The working poor aren’t eligable for public health programs, they usually don’t have benefits through their employers, and in general they constitue the greatest percentage of the uninsured in America. Healthcare doesn’t look good for this group of struggling workers. What can they do, when they “play by the rules and loose?” This issue is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Food Stamps
Living Surviving on Food Stamps. CNN’s Sean Callebs did an innovative thing (er…not) by taking on the life of a low-income person and seeing if he could survive and feed himself for a month. (See Nickel and Dimed). He also went about it smartly, so the stint wouldn’t truly effect him, by consulting with a [...]
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