More than 6 in 10 uninsured children qualify for Medicaid or the State
Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) but are not enrolled. Medicaid and
SCHIP already cover 79 percent of their target population-more than any other
traditional means-tested program. This brief describes strategies to enroll more
low-income children. Click to continue at Urban Institute
A drug sales representative who disappeared last week was found dead
Thursday near a forest preserve, not far from where her car was
abandoned, her uncle said. However, authorities and other relatives
said victim's identity hadn't been confirmed. Click to continue at Google.com
More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as
in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released
Thursday. The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for
every Latino in college housing. Read more at Chron.com
Hundreds of people stretched their arms out Sunday evening over the family of Nailah Franklin. With no new developments in the case of the 28-year-old Chicago woman,
who has been missing since Tuesday, Franklin's family turned for
spiritual help... Read more at chicagotribune.com
Fifty years after federal troops escorted Terrence Roberts and eight
fellow black students into an all-white high school, he says the
struggles over race and segregation still are unresolved. Read more from boston.com