Blog 4

Seth Mydans. " School Offers Day Care For Teen-Age Mothers".New York Times.

Joanna Rivas is a 17 year old teen mother with a five month old daughter. she attends Jordan High School and they are one of the many schools that provide a child care program for their students. Surveys show how that motherhood is the leading reason for girls to fail to finish high school. Child care recieves funding from the State of California up to 20 babies at the age of two. There are many waiting list at these schools. 470,000 un married teen moms are to be in the State of California. Most say the reason for teen moms is a "dysfunctional family" but many beg to differ. Only 14 state provide money for child care for adolescent parents at schools says Amy Wilkins at the Children Defense Fund. They wnat to provide this for teen moms so that they will not go welfare.

this article is good vecause it had a alot of good facts of ecomics and it could bring up the top of religion is this program allowing the teen moms to thin this is okay they will do it for them

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/14/EDG2PC4K7I1.DTL

Blog #2

Health Care's Share of U.S. Economy Rose at Record Rate
By Katherine Q. Seelye

Terms :
1. recession - a period of slow or negative economic growth due to things such as uneployement.
2. medicaid - U.S. health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources.
3. medicare - social insurance program administrated by the U.S. government providing medical coverage for people who are aged 65 an over and meet special requirements.

Summary :
The recession has increased the nations hralth care bill, we as Americans are spending more than ever on health services and drugs in 2009 than in 2008 when economy fell. Healh care has cost us 2.5 trillion dollars. The reason for this spending is because so many people have lost job and the health insurance that came with it so they are relying on government funding with Medicaid. There is uncertanty if Congress will pass any cost related chhnages towards the Health care system. People believe that healthcre spending will double by 2019 reaching 4.5 trillion dollars. 21.3 % rate cut in medicre payments to doctores goe in efect this year and medicare spending should go down to 1.5%. The spending on prescription drug has went sky rocketing to246.3 bilion dollars. In my opionon I agree with this article because it seems that everybody is depending on medicaid and medicare and jobs willl not be hiring that much any time soon. By 2019 the baby boomrs will be around 65 and depending on this government aid more than ever. some solutuons i think they should make is have other health crae companies help out more because, its basically coming out from our pay checks and taxes to pay for most of this and we are barley getting out the recession now.


http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us-health-care-spending-rose-at-record-rate-in-2009/?scp=3&sq=Economy&st=cse