No strain on Medicaid

March 14, 2007 at 7:17 pm | In community, government, healthcare, immigration, infrastructure, north carolina, survey, trends | Leave a Comment

A new study, printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that new immigrants (including those in the country illegally) are not placing undue burden on the state’s Emergency Medicaid spending:

Between 2001 and 2004, the state spent less than 1 percent of its total annual Medicaid budget on care for such immigrants.

Dr. Annette DuBard, a research associate at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, was the study’s lead author.

– mvc

Cleaning up hog waste

March 14, 2007 at 7:06 pm | In agriculture, environment, ncsu, north carolina, policy, technology | Leave a Comment

NC State is getting $15 million to develop new ways to process and treat hog waste. The money is coming from Smithfield Foods, and another $1.3 million will go to farmers for help cleaning up waste lagoons.

The grants are a response to the pollution caused by hog waste lagoons that overflowed into streams and rivers during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

– mvc

Investing in social capital

March 14, 2007 at 5:03 pm | In community, culture, future, nonprofit, north carolina, organizing, trends | Leave a Comment

A foundation Winston-Salem has invested millions of dollars into building up social capital in the community, and on NPR’s The State of Things, host Frank Stasio talked with guests about the efforts and a new survey which shows that the movement is yielding modest improvements.

– mvc

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