Child Welfare and Foster Care – Oregon, Washington DC
New child welfare audit says Oregon can do more to reunite parents and kids in foster care, By Michelle Cole, April 24, 2012, The Oregonian: “While Oregon child welfare caseworkers do better than the...
View ArticleElectronic Benefit Transactions – Oregon
Some Oregonians receiving government assistance are cashing out at casinos, bars and strip clubs, By Michelle Cole, April 29, 2012, The Oregonian: “Oregonians who received assistance from the state to...
View ArticleMedicaid Experiment – Oregon
Oregon’s Medicaid experiment represents a ‘defining moment’, By Kristian Foden-Vencil, May 30, 2012, National Public Radio: “The things that Amy Vance does for James Prasad are pretty simple: She calls...
View ArticleSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Big jump in food-stamp enrollment drives farm bill debate, By Charles Pope, July 22, 2012, The Oregonian: “The farm bill Congress is struggling to pass is enormous — a $958 billion piece of legislation...
View Article2012 Kids Count Report – Western States
Oregon tumbles in report on kids, By Saerom Yoo, July 24, 2012, Statesman Journal: “An annual report that ranks the 50 states on the well-being of their children says that Oregon’s place has taken a...
View ArticleState Minimum Wage – Oregon
Oregon’s minimum wage will increase to $8.95 an hour in 2013, By Queenie Wong, September 17, 2012, Statesman Journal: “Oregon’s minimum wage will increase by 15 cents to $8.95 an hour next year,...
View ArticleChild Welfare System – Oregon
State child welfare officials hope to launch new program to prevent children from entering foster care, By Yuxing Zheng, January 23, 2013, The Oregonian: “Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is proposing a new...
View ArticleOregon Medicaid Experiment
Experiment in Oregon gives Medicaid very local roots, By Kirk Johnson, April 12, 2013, New York Times: “Some say America has been homogenized, a chain-store nation bereft of regional distinction in...
View ArticleKids Count Report – Oregon
44 percent of children statewide in 2011 were poor or low-income, study says, By Yuxing Zheng, April 23, 2013, The Oregonian: “About 44 percent of children in Oregon in 2011 were poor or low-income,...
View ArticlePublic Assistance Programs – Oregon
State officials struggle to reduce need for welfare, food stamps, By Yuxing Zheng, September 8, 2013, The Oregonian: “Jennifer Noonan sits outside behind her apartment on a recent weekday afternoon...
View ArticleACA and Health Insurance Coverage
Uninsured find more success via health exchanges run by states, By Robert Pear and Abby Goodnough, October 8, 2013, New York Times: “Robyn J. Skrebes of Minneapolis said she was able to sign up for...
View ArticleSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Families feel the pangs of SNAP cuts, By Lolly Bowean, Juan Perez Jr. and Vikki Ortiz Healy, November 10, 2013, Chicago Tribune: “It wasn’t until years after Amy Jezler lost her job at the Salvation...
View ArticleLong-Term Unemployment
Out of work, out of benefits, and running out of options, By Annie Lowrey, April 3, 2014, New York Times: “Abe Gorelick has decades of marketing experience, an extensive contact list, an Ivy League...
View ArticleTANF Work Participation – Oregon, Maine
Oregon welfare audit says state should increase job training, accountability to move recipients into work, By Yuxing Zheng, April 16, 2014, The Oregonian: “An audit of the welfare program in Oregon...
View ArticleTANF Work Participation – Oregon
Welfare in Oregon: Audit paints detailed portrait, By Yuxing Zheng, April 25, 2014, The Oregonian: “An audit released this month on Oregon’s dismal track record shifting people off of welfare and into...
View ArticlePoverty Rate – Oregon
Poverty in Oregon: Interactive maps show food stamps, welfare, Medicaid reliance by county, By Yuxing Zheng, April 28, 2014, The Oregonian: “Nearly five years after the Great Recession officially...
View ArticleConcentrated Poverty – Oregon
Oregon’s huge increase in people living in high-poverty areas one of nation’s most extreme, study finds, By Betsy Hammond, July 16, 2014, The Oregonian: “Oregon experienced one of the nation’s most...
View ArticleState Medicaid Programs – Oregon, North Carolina
Medicaid enrollees strain Oregon, By Gosia Wozniacka (AP), July 23, 2014, ABC News: “Low-income Oregon residents were supposed to be big winners after the state expanded Medicaid under the federal...
View ArticleSNAP Enrollment – Oregon
Oregon’s economy would get $500 million infusion if everyone eligible for food stamps accepted them: report, By Bryan Denson, August 28, 2014, The Oregonian: “Oregon’s economy would get a nearly $500...
View ArticleState Minimum Wage – Oregon
Oregon minimum wage will increase to $9.25 in 2015, By Molly Young, September 17, 2014, The Oregonian: “Oregon’s minimum wage will increase 15 cents to $9.25 an hour in 2015, state labor officials...
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