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Study tries to make Utah's KIDS COUNT, pushes for improvements

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 11:05pm

OGDEN — There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to the health and well-being of Utah kids, according to the Voices for Utah Children’s “Utah KIDS COUNT” study, released Monday.

The study, which has been released annually for the past 17 years, provides comprehensive data on a wide variety of child well-being indicators, including analysis of items ranging from prenatal care to high school graduation.

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Panel on poverty, environment set

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 13, 2012 - 4:48pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- National experts will meet April 21 at St. Mark's Cathedral, 231 E. 100 South, in downtown Salt Lake City, for an in-depth look at how poverty and the environment overlap.

According to a news release from the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable, Kim Lawton of PBS' "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" will join the panel for an international webcast from the cathedral.

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Morgan ranked Utah's healthiest county -- again

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 2, 2012 - 10:12pm

MORGAN — For the third year in a row, Morgan County is the healthiest county in the state, according to a national report.

The County Health Rankings report, conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, compares counties in a number of categories, including healthy behavior, clinical care and social and economic factors.

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Millions of Chinese living in caves

Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 5:13pm

YANAN, China -- Like many peasants from the outskirts of Yanan, China, Ren Shouhua was born in a cave and lived there until he got a job in the city and moved into a concrete-block house.

His progression made sense as he strove to improve his life. But there's a twist: the 46-year-old Ren plans to move back to a cave when he retires.

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Senator from Ogden sponsors bill to track poverty trends

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:47am

SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Stuart Reid, R-Ogden, has introduced legislation that would allow state officials to track intergenerational poverty in an effort to break that cycle.

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Film on poverty to premiere locally

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 3:19pm

Does it seem that there is no way to ever end extreme poverty? According to a news release from Calvary Chapel Wasatch Front in Clearfield:

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Sheri Stalworth eats a nice meal of lasagna and salad at an elevated table, as others have soup on the floor during the hunger banquet on Monday at Weber State University in Ogden.

Hunger dinner raises awareness of poverty in Ogden

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 10:01pm

OGDEN -- At a dinner Monday night at Weber State University, nearly half of those in attendance were seated on the bare floor and received soup, bread and water for their meal.

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Girl Scouts brave cold to empathize with homeless

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 9:42am

OGDEN -- Spending a night in a box was on 10th-grader Kiley Matthews' bucket list.

Now she can scratch that off.

She and about 17 other Girl Scouts spent Friday night sleeping outside in cardboard boxes just big enough for them, their blankets and animal-shaped pillows. The sleepover was meant to show them firsthand what it's like to be one of Utah's thousands of homeless. There were 14,351 people who were homeless throughout the state as of the annual head count in January.

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Loving moms reduce poverty's health risks

Sally Kalson Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 1:57pm

A new study has found that children raised in poverty were less likely to develop certain chronic diseases in adulthood if they had loving, attentive mothers from a young age.

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The debate over food stamps

Alfred Lubrano The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 8:16am

PHILADELPHIA -- Hard times are compelling 46 million Americans to use food stamps, a number up an astonishing 70 percent from four years ago.

Now totaling about $65 billion a year, the recession-swelled food stamp program is drawing attention from some conservatives in Congress who wonder whether such spending should be corralled.

Part of the renewed conversation involves questions over the list of items that food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can and cannot be used to buy.

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