Today, the Women’s Foundation of California and the California Budget Project released a joint paper, Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California’s Women and Their Families. Major takeaways from the report include: Single mothers were hardest hit by the recession and recent budget cuts contributed to sharp increases [...]
There has been a lot of media attention this week focused on Penn State – its administration and its football program. Who knew what, and who told whom, and when. Of course, lots of whys. Perhaps instead of football coaches, the story that deserves to be discussed – in fact, must be discussed – is [...]
This week the federal government released a new “Supplemental Poverty Measure.” It doesn’t replace the current calculation, but it “provides us a different angle on who is in economic need,” according to Rebecca Blank, U.S. Commerce Department undersecretary for economic affairs. The official poverty measure – developed nearly 50 years ago – took one analyst’s [...]
What makes an excellent system of care for transition-age foster youth? Humboldt County believes there are no better experts than the youth themselves.
In 2008, the Humboldt County Transition Age Youth Collaboration (HCTACY) was launched in partnership with the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, the Y.O.U.T.H. Training Project, California Youth Connection, and Youth In Mind. The goal of this initiative is to build an effective, responsive, and youth-informed system of care for transition-age foster youth.
United States Senators and county leaders from across the nation came together in Washington, D.C., yesterday over an issue that can truly be viewed as life or death. It’s the federal budget proposal that calls for $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and turning it into a block grant program. Standing alongside the Senators and county officials were Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss and Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty.