MINIMUM, BUT NOT ENOUGH

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.

ASTHMA RATES

Asthma hospitalization rates for kids are lower than they have been since the city started collecting the data in 1984.

NO COMPLIANCE

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.

IOM WANTS UNIVERSAL

The Congressionally chartered Institute of Medicine said in a high-profile report yesterday that the nation must reach universal health care coverage by 2010.

GIVING TO THE RICH

In the world of foundation giving, it’s all about the rich getting richer, or so says a study conducted by the Foundation Center and the Boston Globe.