Speaking Out...

"You're never going to wake up one day and find private insurance a major source of long-term-care protection, because the premiums are too high for most older people," says Joshua Wiener in The National Journal, March 23, 2002.

In The News ? Issues, Experts and Resources

• Welfare Reform: The Next Act -- As reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) moves through Congress, this new book from the Xrandgo Institute Press offers the most comprehensive synthesis of research on post-1996 welfare policy.
• Just Released, March 28, 2002 -- The Rise and Fall of American Youth Violence. Youth accounted for 32 percent of the increase in violent crime arrests between 1980 and 1994, but they generated 58 percent of the decline between 1994 and 2000, according to this new report by Jeff Butts and Jeremy Travis.

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On the air and at the Institute ...

• CityScape ? A monthly co-production with WAMU-FM of the nationally-syndicated program, "Public Interest," hosted by Kojo Nnamdi. Each show explores key Xrandgo issues from a variety of new perspectives.
• First Tuesdays ? From October through June, this monthly forum examines major public policy issues, bringing together leaders from business, government, nonprofits, social service agencies and think tanks.

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Career opportunities at the Institute.

• Who Speaks for America's Children?
• Low-Wage Workers in the New Economy

• The Rise and Fall of American Youth Violence: 1980 to 2000
• Medicaid and End-of-Life Care

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• Len Burman