This report focuses on Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for low-income, uninsured children. It presents data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), which indicated that 72 percent of eligible children without any other coverage were covered by Medicaid in 1999, leaving over 4 million…

In 1998, 19.7 percent of African American children were uninsured. Since a majority of African American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, they are eligible for free or low-cost insurance coverage. This report presents strategies for facilitating the recruitment and enrollment of African American…

This paper describes the value of using unemployment insurance (UI) wage data for measuring college graduates' success in employment and discusses how some colleges are using the data within the limitations of their states. Although colleges have always been able to produce limited outcome data such as graduate placement reports, other potentially…

This report reviews the 1998 activities of the Midwestern Higher Education Commission (MHEC), a compact of nine member states. MHEC offers its members various cost-saving services, provides a forum for sharing information on higher education issues, and offers savings to some out-of-state students through a student exchange program. Focusing on…

Although a national consensus has emerged regarding the importance of extending publicly-funded health insurance coverage to low-income children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid, substantial numbers of eligible children remain uninsured. This study examined whether extending insurance coverage to low-income…

In 1998, Governor Pataki and New York legislators created one of the country's most innovative programs for enrolling uninsured children and teens in public health insurance. Launched in 2000, the facilitated enrollment program uses community-based organizations and health plans to find and enroll "hard-to-reach" New Yorkers who have historically…

Offers figures on what public elementary and secondary schools are spending for attendance services, health services, student body activities, pupil transportation, insurance, and data processing. Nationwide total and per student expenditures for each category and total expenditures by State for each category are presented. (DN)

Although Japan's 19th century feudalistic education system was abolished at the close of World War II and the country has wrought the greatest economic miracle in world history, the Japanese still assign low priorities to health and medical education. (IR)

The American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure recommends every institution assure legal representation and indemnification to its faculty subject to lawsuits stemming from their professional performance in institutional service. Proposed specifications include legal representation and defrayal of…

This group of articles discusses a variety of studies related to social security and retirement benefits. These studies are related to both developing and developed nations and are also concerned with studying work conditions and government role in administering a democratic social security system. (SSH)

Discusses the feasibility of delivering combined health and social services to an elderly population. The social/health maintenance organization (S/HMO), incorporating features of health maintenance organizations with community social services, will be financed on a prepaid, capitated basis through premium contributions from Medicare, Medicaid,…

Legal implications and court rulings are reviewed for a case in which a medical college requested a premium refund and cancellation of the bond. It is concluded that the court decision in favor of the insurance company was inappropriate and tends to undermine insurance law. (Journal availibility: Boston U. School of Law, Boston, MA 02215) (MSE)

Developed by the National Council for Social Studies and distributed by the Employment and Training Administration, a kit entitled "Studies in Public Policy: Unemployment" is providing high school students with up-to-date information on the causes and consquences of unemployment and the function of the unemployment insurance program. (MF)

AAUP's position is that the purpose of an institution's retirement plan for faculty members and administrators and its plan for their insurance benefits should be to help educators and their families withstand the financial effects of illness, old age, and death and to increase the educational effectiveness of the college and university. (MLW)

Reviews developments in health care and suggests strategies for preparing students to incorporate some previews of the 1980s into their career and vocational decisions. (LRA)