Spending on health care and education make up about one quarter of America’s economy. Despite spending more than other developed countries, however, our outcomes in both sectors lag behind our peer countries. Budget expert Isabel Sawhill’s post on Brookings asserted that “providers are paid based on what they deliver and not on the outcomes they produce.”…
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has updated its DC-Metro life expectancy map and has included maps for other areas based on data produced by the Center’s Place Matters study. The maps give a clear example of how life expectancy differs within a small geographic area and how even though we attribute so much of…
A report released by the Urban Institute earlier this month examines the relationship between youth employment and education by racial class. As would be expected, the authors found that graduating high school increases the likelihood of employment and getting more schooling is even better. What they also found, however, was that the impact of getting…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a new report detailing the characteristics of the “working poor”, those whose household income is below the federal poverty limit despite working for at least part of the year. According to the report, 10.4 million individuals fell into this category in 2011, nearly a quarter of all those…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
Despite being on average more economically advantaged, American students consistently score lower on standardized tests than students in other developed countries. Many mistakenly attribute this finding to the idea that children living in poverty or other distressed environments drag the average score down but that middle or upper class students are some of the best…
A new paper out of the the journal Health Affairs exams how the mortality rate (the number of deaths per persons) of United States counties has changed between 1992 to 2006. The authors found that nearly half (42.8%) of all counties had a higher mortality rate among women in 2006 than they had in 1992. …
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
The following post is related to the Center’s work on a Health Impact Assessment of a proposed biomass-powered energy facility in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The facility was proposed as a potential remedy to the issue of nutrient concentration related to trends in livestock production. Each post in the series describes one particular aspect…
Ann Davison is the Managing Director with VOXGLOBAL, a communications firm in Washington D.C. that is working with CHN on our Education and Health Initiative. In this guest-post, she provides insight into the factors that influence today’s classroom and how that can impact the future of public health. Decades ago as I sat in my…