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Report: Hunger in U.S. reaches 5 million children
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A house-to-house survey of nearly 800 low-income families in Washington state suggests that as many as 5 million of America's children suffer from hunger and the active activist group said yesterday.
The Food Research and Action Center is extending the study to seven other states over the next 15 months, with data from Washington state" . . . we estimate conservatively that 2 million to 5 million children in this country could now have a serious food security problem, executive director of the center
"We believe that this estimate is conservative because it attempts to prevent children from dying in poverty who might be hungry," said Fersch. "It does not include any children from families on low-poverty line who might be hungry."
At the same time, Fersh acknowledged that he has no way of knowing whether the survey results in
The responses given by mothers to a lengthy questionnaire are correlated with their family income and what, if any, public assistance such as food stamps.
Washington state will be replicated in larger studies.
Similar studies are now under way in Minnesota, Florida, Connecticut, California, Michigan, Alabama and New York.
The survey researchers were first used in a 1986 survey in Connecticut to assess the impact of online and ongoing studies, all of which involve selecting low-income families at random and then conducting a follow-up that take about 45 minutes each.
Among the questions: Does your household ever run out of money to pay for lunch? Should children ever eat less than you should they should because there is not enough food!
A respondent had to answer yes to at least five such questions before being placed in the hunger category.
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to think politically and critically." she said.
M. Wayne Webb, Shawnee senior and graduate student, the group served as president for many students as well. He added that BSU all taught students, not only
"The group helps many students in terms of comfort with the University setting," he said. "It's somewhere to turn in times of need.
"Also, activities like Mr. Essence and Ms. Ebony help with black identity."
Harris said student groups, like BSU, are important to the preservation and education of cultures.
"Blacks and whites can't integrate successfully unless everyone has some point of cultural identity as a personal base," she said. "We need people to work in the assimilation of people and work toward appreciation of cultures."
Unfortunately, Harris said, the current political climate is such that much of the activism of the 1960s and '70s has evaporated.
To mark the BSU's 20th anniversary, students write essays about ways in which BSU might better serve KU students. The deadline for the contest is Thursday.
Surrogacy raises legal issues
Rutgers professor discusses questions on pregnancy, ethics
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
The Baby M custody case raised many legal and ethical questions that have yet to be resolved, a case involved in the case said yesterday.
Nadine Taub, director of the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic and professor of law at Rutgers University, led a group of people at Green Hall about "Baby M. Surrogate Arrangements and Concepts of Parenthood" in a lecture sponsored by the women's university of Kansas School of Law.
Tuba voiced concerns about societal criteria for the use of surrogacy, such as society's disregard for the rights of children of sexualized or unmarried couples. She also said that without certain laws, surrogacy could exploit the biological mother and increase the emotional pain caused by infertility.
Pikiss Klam, KU professor of
intended to raise questions about
the complexities and problems of
infertility and surrogate arrange-
Taub, project director of a study of "Reproductive Laws for the 1990s," became involved in the Baby M case through her work in her
the Rutgers women's rights clinic, offering her opinion on the courts in an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court case, at the trial and appellate levels.
The case involved a custody suit between the surrogate mother Mary Beth Benton and her stepfather Elizabeth Stern, the couple who had contracted for the baby. After a sensationalized court case, the father was removed from Whitehead has visitation rights.
Taub said the judge disregarded New Jersey law forbidding the termination of parental rights in making the decision.
"It wasn't in the judge's authority," she said. "It would be very difficult to prove it in cases — divorce cases, other things involved — for the judge to disregard the law and say 'It's up to the child's best interests.'"
Legal problems in surrogacy now surround the biological mothers, the family contracting with them and making decisions in such cases.
"The first set of problems is, what are you going to be allowed to contract away?" she said. "The second set of problems is, what are you going to be allowed to contract away? The third set of problems is, who are going to be imposed?"
Nadine Taub, director of the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic, talks on "Baby M. Surrogate Arrangements, and Concepts of Parenthood." Taub spoke yesterday afternoon to about 75 students at Green Hall.
you going to let make the judgments about whether a particular case ought to go forward?"
will have to move beyond the Baby M case to consider nontraditional concepts of parenting and to guard against a successful surrogacy will be possible.
In the end, Taub said, the law
Kansas explores Minnesota pay plan
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Minnesota state official said yesterday that a pay equity plan for state workers in Minnesota has reduced the turnover rate and increased productivity.
Nina Rinchchild, commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, delivered a Topkea Statehouse news conference that a pay equity plan drew bipartisan support in the Minnesota Legislature when the measure was passed in
"It was essentially considered good management practice." Rothcheld said.
Rothchild was in Kansas as a guest of the
Manhattan Pay Equity Coalition. She will give
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Rothchild discussed pay equity with members of Gov. Mike Hayden's staff earlier in the day. The state has implemented the first two of a threephase reclassification program designed to bring state employee salaries up to par with the private sector. Implementation of the third phase has been
The governor's staff appeared to be interested in Minnesota's experience with pay equity. Rothchild said,
"They seemed very receptive to it," she said.
The pay equity plan in Minnesota, which increased wages in women-dominated fields such as secretarial and health-care, required the Legislature to increase the total state payroll by 3.7 percent or $2 million, she said. Salaries are about 12 per cent of the total state budget in Minnesota, she added.
About 9,000 jobs were affected by the pay equity plan, Rothchild said.
The plan cut the turnover rate in half in some fields, she said. Minnesota is rated 80% among the states, the number of employees per capita she added, increasing a high level of productivity by state workers.
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