Last month the early childhood world got a healthy dose of good news. Analysis of data from North Carolina's famous Abecedarian Project, directed by Nobel laureate James Heckman, showed a surprising result. Children who participated in the program from birth to age 5 were in significantly better physical health 30 years later than their...
In the last four years Wisconsin has made great strides to build and expand an evidence-based home visiting system. Recent action in Washington bodes well for continuing sustainable funding as Congress extended the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program into 2015. Breakthrough in 2011 Support in Washington is good...
Urban Institute Says 5.4 Million Adults Gained Insurance between September 2013 and March 2014 A New York Times editorial Thursday morning assesses the success of the ACA. It focuses on the number of sign-ups for private coverage through the Marketplace, which recently surged past 7 million. However, the editorial also cites the...
A number of important changes to BadgerCare take effect tomorrow, April 1. At the top of the list are the following two changes: Cutting in half the income eligibility ceiling for parents and caretakers, as well as childless adults in BadgerCare Core, by reducing the income cap to the federal poverty level (from the current limit of...
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the UW Population Health Institute released their annual County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. The annual ranking of Wisconsin counties was initiated by the UW Population Health Institute many years ago, and this became a national project with the RWJ Foundation five years ago. It now ranks...
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