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Galinsky, Ellen, 39
Gardner, Sid, 72
General Accounting Office (GAO), xvi, 8, 11,44.50,54,67,
69-70
Georgia, 9, 45. 107-123
Georgia School-Age Care Initiative, 45
GI Bill, 16, 17
Grandparents. children living with, 64, 68, 69, 75
Greenstein. Robert, 53
Grogger. Jeffrey, 89
Gulf Coast Trade Center (TX). 91
Guns, xvii, 77, 78-79, 81-82, 86, 87, 123
Handgun Control, Inc., 8I
Harvard University: Joint Center for Housing Studies, 16,
17-18; Kennedy School. 70
Hatch, Orrin, xxi, 26
Havel, Vaclav, xxi
Hawaii, 10,26, 107-123
HCFA, see Health Care Financing Administration
Head Start, ix, xi, xvii, 37. 46. 50. 51; food programs for, 42;
mental health strategies of, 70; participation in, 41, Jl8; race
of enrollees in. 118; state support for, 43, 44
Health: 'agenda for action on, 35-36; effects of poor housing
on, 17; effects of undernutrition on, 55-56; facts and figures
about, 22; immunizations, 23-24; insurance, 2, 21, 22. 23,
25-30,35,36, 117; managed care plans for, 22-23, 31-33,
35, 36; maternal and child. 23, 33-34, 36, 104; and
Medicaid, 21-22, 27, 28, 30-31, 35; services in schools, 35,
97,101
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). 31, 32, 35
HealthChoice Program (MD), 35
HealthPartners (MN), 35
Healthy Kids (FL), 25-26
HHS, see U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
High school graduates, 48. 49, 88
Higher Education Act, 49
Hispanics; child poverty among, 4, 108; educational
achievement of, 48-49; and food stamps. 56; Head Start
enrollment of, 118; income of, 2; and infant mortality, 33;
maternal and child health among, 23; teen births to, 95;
unemployment among, 88
HIV,24
HOME program, 19
Homelessness. 16-20. 44, 63
Homicide, 77, 78-79. 81, 82, 83; by state, 123
Hornbeck, David, 51
House of Representatives, see U.S. House of Representatives
Housing, 16-20,25, 56
HUD. see U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development
"I Am Your Child" campaign, 42
Idaho, 9, 107-123
IDEA. see Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
lIlinois. 43, 45, 57, 107-123; foster care in. 67; and TANF, 8, 9,
12; Work Pays program in, 13-14
Immediate Response Early Truancy Program (TN), 85
Immigrants, 15,55; effect of 1996 welfare law on, 12,53-54;
and food stamps, 55, 57, 61; and WIC, 57-58
Immunizations, 22, 23-24; state rates of, 117
Implications ofIncreased Work Participation for Child Care. 44
Income: agenda for increasing, 14-15; and child poverty, I,
3-5; from child support, 13; of corporate CEOs, xi;
inequality, xi-xii, 2, 3; ratio of rent to, 16; sources for poor
families, 5; from welfare, 4, 7-11, 13-14; from work, 1-7,
13-14
Indian Child Welfare Act, 64
Indiana, 8-10, 30, 107-123
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), ix, 48; state
participation in, 120
Infant mortality. xiii, 21, 23. 34, 58; national trends, 104; and
race, 22, 23, 33; rates by state, 116
Insurance, see Health
Internal Revenue Service, 19
Internet. 80
Iowa. 8, 10. 107-123
Jails, children in adult, xvii, xxi, 77-78, 82-83, 87
Jefferson County (KY) Family Court. 73
Job Corps. 90
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), 89
Jobs for Youth (NY), 91
lTPA, see Job Training Partnership Act
"Junk guns," 79, 82
Juvenile crime, see Crime
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (1974).64,
77-78
Kaiser Permanente Interstate West (OR), 35
Kansas, 10,72.73.107-123
Kempe, Henry, 63
Kennedy, Edward, xxii, 26
Kentucky, 10,73-74,83,107-123
Kentucky Youth Advocates (KYA), 73, 83
Kessler, David, xviii
Kids These Days, 42
King, Martin Luther, Jr., ix, xi, xvi
Kinship Care in California: The Challenges and Opportunities
Facing Relatives and the Children Placed in Their Care, 68
Kinship care of children, 68-69, 75
Kirby, Douglas, 97, 98
Koop, C. Everett, xviii
Lou v. Nichols, 48
Law Enforcement Agency Directors (LEAD, PAl, 86
Lead poisoning, 17
Leave, fantil~ix,46-47
Leave No Child Behind movement, xv, xxi, xxii
Lessons from the Field: Head Start Mental Health Strategies to
Meet Changing Needs, 70
Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 19
Louisiana, 9. 26, 107-123
Louisville, KY,73-74
Low birthweight, xiii, 23, 24, 33, 54, 58, 97-98; national trends,
104; state rates. 114, surgeon general's goals, 34
Low Income Housing Tax Credit, 19
Ludtke, Melissa, 93
Maine, 8, 10, 107-123
Males: arrest rates for, 79-81, 83; in jail, xii-xiii, 89; and teen
pregnancy, 97, 99; unemployment among, 88
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