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HUD provides 2,500 housing vouchers to keep families together
From HUD Press Releases: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is awarding 2,500 rental assistance vouchers to 37 public housing authorities across the U.S. to reunite more than 7,500 children with their...

Who Pays No Income Tax?
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: Nearly half of all tax units will pay no income tax in 2009. The fraction of non-taxpayers differs widely, depending on income, tax filing status, and whether the unit is elderly or contains children. Read...

Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise. Today, at the annual meeting of...

Report calls for new initiative to improve math education for preschoolers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: To ensure that all children enter elementary school with the foundation they need for success, a major national initiative is needed to improve early childhood mathematics education, says a new report from the National Research...

Overweight kids experience more loneliness, anxiety, MU study finds
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of Missouri study has...


       

HUD provides 2,500 housing vouchers to keep families together

Who Pays No Income Tax?

Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms

Report calls for new initiative to improve math education for preschoolers

Overweight kids experience more loneliness, anxiety, MU study finds

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Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in und...

Report calls for new initiative to improve math education for preschoolers
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: To ensure that all children enter elementary school with the foundation they need for success, a major national init...

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Laying a Solid Foundation: Strategies for Effective Program Replication
Public/Private Ventures: The replication of proven social programs is a cost-effective and efficient way to achieve large-scale, positive social chang...

TPC Releases Powerful Figures on Health Grantmaking
From PR Newswire: Study Shows Underserved Communities Receiving Lion's Share of Health Grants In the midst of one of the biggest debates on health car...

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HUD provides 2,500 housing vouchers to keep families together
From HUD Press Releases: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is awarding 2,500 rental assistance...

HUD Secretary Donovan announces expanded eligibility for Making Home Affordab...
From HUD Press Releases: WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced an expansion of the Obama Administrat...

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Who Pays No Income Tax?
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: Nearly half of all tax units will pay no income tax in 2009. The fraction of non-taxpayers differs widely, depend...

Revitalizing Social Security: Effectively Targeting Benefit Enhancements for ...
From Urban Institute Latest Reports: I argue that Social Security benefits for long-term, low-wage workers are modest and need to be increased. There ...

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Secretary of Education Announces Resources to Push Reforms, make College Affo...
From Education Newsfeed: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that starting tomorrow $13 billion will be available for schools and that millio...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Calls Texas High School Teacher Kyle Bre...
From Education Newsfeed: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today called Kyle Brenner, a world history teacher and debate coach at Princeton High...

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UNC study: Aerobic activity may keep the brain young
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: In a UNC study, to be published July 9 in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, physically active elderly people s...

Study shows 1 in 25 deaths worldwide attributable to alcohol
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Research from Canada's Center for Addiction and Mental Health featured in this week's edition of the Lancet shows th...

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Rural Assistance Center Human Services Update
Rural Assistance Center: The Rural Assistance Center is a collaborative effort of the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, and the Rura...

Request for Information Concerning Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
From: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: We are trying to help a reporter at a national newspaper who is working on a story about runaway and thr...

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New Report on Ending Childhood Hunger
From Food Research and Action Center: The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) just released a new report setting out seven strategies it deems esse...

Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual ...

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