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Staggering food stamp figures across the United States Nearly half of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood, according to Mark Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Rank says the substantial risk of a child being in a family that uses food stamps is consistent with a wider body of research demonstrating that U.S. children face considerable economic risk during their childhood years. Play >
2009/11/02
China's rapidly aging population-- part of a worldwide trend The global demographic shift is a significant opportunity as long as it is in tandem with a policy and cultural shift, say productive aging experts Play >
2009/10/19
Major milestone in health care debate Timothy McBride, Ph.D., health economist and associate dean for public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis discusses the next steps for health care reform in the United States. Play >
2009/10/16
Research shows autism diagnosis not occurring soon enough Research from Paul Shattuck at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis finds that the average age for children being diagnosed with autism is almost six years old. This is three to four years later than diagnosis is possible. Play >
2009/04/28
Children's reading skills improve with Experience Corps tutoring New research from Washington University in St. Louis has found that students who participated in the Experience Corps tutoring program, over a one year period, made drastic improvements in their reading skills than those who did not, especially in the areas of reading comprehension and sounding out new words. Play >
2009/04/07
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