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STD rate in teen girls shocking'
By Lindsey Tanner | The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Story last updated at 3/12/2008 - 1:24 am
CHICAGO - At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.
Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerability. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention.
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Study Finds 1 in 5 Youths Have Sex Before Age 15
By TAMAR LEWIN
bout 20 percent of adolescents have had sexual intercourse before their 15th birthday — and one in seven of the sexually experienced 14-year-old girls has been pregnant, according to a report by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
The analysis of seven studies conducted in the late 1990s offers a comprehensive look at the sexual activities of 12- to 14-year-olds, a group often overlooked in discussions of adolescent sexuality.
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March 31, 2008
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
The number of recipients, who must have near-poverty incomes to qualify for benefits averaging $100 a month per family member, has fluctuated over the years along with economic conditions, eligibility rules, enlistment drives and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, which led to a spike in the South.
But recent rises in many states appear to be resulting mainly from the economic slowdown, officials and experts say, as well as inflation in prices of basic goods that leave more families feeling pinched. Citing expected growth in unemployment, the Congressional Budget Office this month projected a continued increase in the monthly number of recipients in the next fiscal year, starting Oct. 1 — to 28 million, up from 27.8 million in 2008, and 26.5 million in 2007.
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Reuters
Treasury set to announce regulatory overhaul
Monday March 31, 7:44 am ET
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will reveal in full sweeping new plans on Monday for streamlining a hodgepodge of regulation faulted for permitting the U.S. mortgage crisis to balloon into a full-blown economic threat.
Keenly aware of the political debate already mounting as soaring home foreclosures push the economy toward recession, the Bush administration allowed the veil to be lifted on key measures before Paulson's announcement at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
The regulatory blueprint proposes vesting new powers as a "market stability regulator" in the Federal Reserve -- effectively formalizing a role it already has been performing by providing liquidity to investment banks and lowering official interest rates
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Civilians handle minor duties for strapped police
Departments under budget burdens hire outside help
By Alan Gomez
USA TODAY
Facing tighter budgets, law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly turning to civilians to respond to some calls that sworn officers and deputies are usually responsible for.
That means people calling 911 to report a traffic accident, a burglarized home or a stolen car may be greeted by a civilian in a polo shirt instead of a gun-toting officer.
"It hasn't been universally adopted throughout the country. But most areas have at least thought about the alternative and are more open to it now because of the economy," said Richard Brady, president of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Matrix Consulting Group that has worked with more than 250 law enforcement agencies.
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Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities: study
Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday.
In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate -- finishing 12 grades of school -- in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland.
And it said that black and native American student's have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma.
"Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in America's largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss," the study said.
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USA 2008: The Great Depression
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.
Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.
Michigan has been in its own mini-recession for years as its collapsing industrial base, particularly in the car industry, has cast more and more out of work. Now, one in eight residents of the state is on food stamps, double the level in 2000. "We have seen a dramatic increase in recent years, but we have also seen it climbing more in recent months," Maureen Sorbet, a spokeswoman for Michigan's programme, said. "It's been increasing steadily. Without the programme, some families and kids would be going without." |
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| Rastamon |
| way to focus the discussion, asswipe :rolleyes: |
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| Rastamon |
| let me guess...this is why the entire nation needs concealed carry permits? :drool: |
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| Rastamon |
| or just why you decided to vote repuke this year? |
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| DUDE-HERE |
| THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE WE HAVE ILLEGALS GETTING THEM MORE THAN EVER BEFORE AND THE POOREST PEOPLE IN OUR GREAT SOCIETY SEEM TO HAVE THE MOST KIDS MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN OUR HISTORY |
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| artie84 |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ON FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE WE HAVE ILLEGALS GETTING THEM MORE THAN EVER BEFORE AND THE POOREST PEOPLE IN OUR GREAT SOCIETY SEEM TO HAVE THE MOST KIDS MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN OUR HISTORY |
do you know that for a fact?
i thought illegals couldn't get food stamps |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
Food-Stamp Program Finally Speaks Their Language
KMEX helps an effort to get Latino immigrants to apply for food stamps. An O.C. group takes it a step further and offers a class on how to do it.
By Jennifer Delson, Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2006
Though it goes against the conventional wisdom of anti-illegal immigration supporters, those who enroll the poor in the federal food stamp program say they've struggled for years to get immigrant Latino families signed up.
Now a Spanish-language news report and television ad campaign have spurred thousands of immigrants in Orange County over the last several weeks to contact a nonprofit organization that offers a Spanish-language class called "Food Stamps in Four Hours."
The stream of immigrants contrasts sharply with what was going on just a few months ago when only a handful of immigrants would attend the free course.
The news report and ads were heard throughout Southern California, but those who responded in Orange County were directed to a nonprofit organization. Most other callers to the toll-free number were directed to county offices.
The Orange County strategy has been lauded throughout the state as a way to reach immigrants who are reluctant to get help from the government.
"They won't come on their own," said Jerry Sanders, food bank manager of the nonprofit Community Action Partnership of Orange County in Garden Grove. "They come from countries where they think the government isn't to be trusted. They figure there's a catch to free food."
Advocates say immigrants, if here illegally, are also worried about being deported if they apply for food stamps. Or they fear jeopardizing a pending application for residency or citizenship. Illegal immigrants can apply on behalf of their minor children here legally.
Other immigrants say they were simply embarrassed.
"The Mexican man is macho. He doesn't want to come to this country and beg," said Alfonso Chavez, the Community Action Partnership's outreach coordinator. "I tell them this is a program that will help the children. The kids are American-born, and they have a right to this program."
A Los Angeles County Department of Social Services task force is looking at ways to find eligible families to enroll. County workers have signed up families at food banks with only minor success.
"We recognize that people in Orange County are ahead of us," said task force member Bruce Rankin, the executive director of the Westside Food Bank in Los Angeles. "The rest of us in the state are looking at Orange County for ideas." Low participation, he said, "is a dilemma in the state."
The federal government estimates 60% of eligible households participate in the food stamp program nationally. In California, the participation rate drops sharply. A study of 2003 participation rates by Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research group, showed that 34% of California's working poor participated in the program that year, the third lowest percentage among the 50 states.
There are 30,000 households in Orange County that receive food stamps, federal officials said.
Sanders of the Community Action Partnership estimates more than three times that amount could qualify.
Aliso Viejo resident Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project, which fights illegal immigration, said the Orange County program encouraged illegal immigration.
These immigrants and their children "should only be given life-saving medical care," Gilchrist said.
"If we encourage illegal alien families to come forward and exploit the ? system, aren't we encouraging more illegal immigration? We have to cut these benefits off."
In 2004, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Mexican Embassy agreed to jointly disseminate brochures and create the public service announcements.
The agreement led Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to tout the food stamp program on Univision's KMEX Channel 34 six weeks ago. The newscast included the partnership's phone number. More than 1,200 people called the partnership in the following days, Sanders said.
Then, two weeks ago, the Department of Agriculture began to air a monthlong series of ads on Spanish-language television in Southern California and three other markets in the U.S.
When Sanders first saw the Spanish-language public service announcements, he asked the government if Orange County callers could be routed to his office. That led to hundreds more inquiries. Callers, which number about 2,000 calls a day nationwide, are only routed to nonprofit organizations in seven California counties. The others are directed to government offices.
In Orange County, several of those attending a recent "Food Stamps in Four Hours" class said they were convinced it was legitimate when they saw Ortiz Haro on television.
"This program is not welfare. It won't affect your immigration status," Ortiz Haro said on television.
"The program is a right, and if we don't use it, it's a privilege that will pass you by."
About 20 people attended a "Food Stamps in Four Hours" class on a recent weekday at the El Modena Community Center in Orange.
Many of them came by a bus provided by Community Action Partnership, which picked up applicants at three locations.
They were given help filling out a 10-page application, as well as nutrition bars and a bag of free food. Then they were taken by bus to a government office in Anaheim to get fingerprinted.
Sylvia Cruz, who has three U.S.-born children, came to the class after hearing about food stamps on a Spanish-language news report. She then worked to convince her husband, a construction worker who earns $1,800 monthly and pays $1,200 in rent.
"I think it was comforting for him to know the consul was talking about this program," Cruz said.
"It made him think this won't get us into trouble."
Claudia Ortega, 31, said she called the nonprofit immediately after the newscast. Her husband didn't need much convincing. The Mexican immigrant couple with three U.S.-born children struggle with a monthly income of $2,200 and $1,150 monthly rent, she said.
"We see how hard it is to get by here, even with two jobs," Ortega said.
"We'll take the help for a little while. It's a program and it's here for us to use."
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| Rastamon |
| this thread could be epic |
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| itsdifferent |
Quote: Originally posted by Rastamon
this thread could be epic |
Nope this thread is just as fuckin stupid as all the others.
Where are the 9/11 psychos, this shit is boring. |
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| Rastamon |
Quote: Originally posted by itsdifferent
Nope this thread is just as fuckin stupid as all the others.
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stupid - yes.
but this jackoff is a hair breadths away from melting down from magic negro syndrome. plus it looks like he has something he wants to get off his chest :munch: |
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| itsdifferent |
Quote: Originally posted by Rastamon
plus it looks like he has something he wants to get off his chest :munch: |
Like he got teh crabs from an 8th grader then lost his job to a messican and now has to wait in the foodstamp line behind brown people? :yawn: |
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| Rastamon |
Quote: Originally posted by itsdifferent
Like he got teh crabs from an 8th grader then lost his job to a messican and now has to wait in the foodstamp line behind brown people? :yawn: |
I have been trying to do a psychological cross-section of what he has offered. and that sounds about right |
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| Fdubya247 |
Quote: Originally posted by Rastamon
I have been trying to do a psychological cross-section of what he has offered. |
:shit:
Hey NCStupid, take it to the Lounge.
:rolleyes: |
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| thoroldjames |
| I'd bet that at least 1 in 4 humans has had a STD, and 1 in 5 under 15 has had sex since the start of time |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
Quote: Originally posted by thoroldjames
I'd bet that at least 1 in 4 humans has had a STD, and 1 in 5 under 15 has had sex since the start of time |
Instead of the start of time, how bout just going back 200 years in the United States.
And that's the point. This country is falling. |
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| Rastamon |
Quote: Originally posted by NC-Stern-Mark
Instead of the start of time, how bout just going back 200 years in the United States.
And that's the point. This country is falling. |
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| MLBoros72s |
Wait, our STD rates have gone up?
Holy shit!
Maybe our abstinence education isn't working! :idea: |
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| betabryan |
Food stamps and illegal aliens.
It's don't ask, don't tell. |
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| mingmen |
| sweet thread, dude |
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| Fdubya247 |
Quote: Originally posted by NC-Stupid-Mark
This country is falling. |
Thanks for voting, Stupid. |
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| NickNuke |
| Actually, I was reading an interesting Op-ed piece tying the increased rate of Typhus and other diseases to the 3rd world influx of both legal and illegal aliens. I guess the hired help dropping trou, and taking a shit in the strawberry patch is going to be our downfall. |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by artie84
do you know that for a fact?
i thought illegals couldn't get food stamps |
SURE THEY CAN..YA SEE TAKE A TRIP TO MACARTHER PARK IN LA AND YOU GET BUY A FAKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER THAT WORKS. ILLEGALS CAN GET SOCIAL SECURITY
EXAMPLE. MY GF'S GRAND PARENTS FROM THE PHILIPPINES NEVER WORKED A DAY IN THEIOR LIVES HERE AND THEY GOT SOCIAL SECURITY BEING HERE AS RESIDENTS. THEY BOTH WOULD RECIEVE ABOUT 800$ |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by itsdifferent
Nope this thread is just as fuckin stupid as all the others.
Where are the 9/11 psychos, this shit is boring. |
WE ARE RIGHT HERE
GO BACK AND PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND |
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| itsdifferent |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
WE ARE RIGHT HERE
GO BACK AND PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND |
Dance for me, monkey-boy! DANCE! :dance: |
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