IOM WANTS UNIVERSAL
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The Congressionally chartered Institute of Medicine said in a high-profile report yesterday that the nation must reach universal health care coverage by 2010.
Government
NO COMPLIANCE
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It will take at least another year before city schools even have a plan to comply with a years’ old state mandate for teaching sexual health.
Bronx
ASTHMA RATES
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Asthma hospitalization rates for kids are lower than they have been since the city started collecting the data in 1984.
MINIMUM, BUT NOT ENOUGH
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As the state’s poverty rate climbs and low-wage jobs expand, the minimum wage–$5.15 an hour—has less buying power than it has had since the 1940s.
Homelessness
GENDERED SHELTER
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A guide for homeless shelter operators on serving transgender clients.
Economy
PROMISES, PROMISES
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The White House is about 1.6 million short on the number of jobs its tax cut was supposed to stimulate by year’s end.
JUDICIAL DISCRETION
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Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist attacked a law passed last spring that limits judges’ ability to depart from sentencing guidelines.
Obesity
AMERICA’S LEAD
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U.S. teens are more likely to be overweight than those in 14 other industrialized countries.
CHINATOWN’S TROUBLES
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Almost a third of Chinatown residents lived below the poverty line as of the 2000 Census, compared to 21 percent of the city as a whole.
Economy
GOOD COMPANY
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Fast Company magazine is adding to the year-in-review mania with one that’s actually interesting: the top 20 social entrepreneurs of 2003.
