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Don’t Miss This #2: Keeping Up in the Midst of Health Care News Dominance

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Here’s another cool distraction from saturation health care coverage: people I work with making it into the mainstream media.

Patrick Boyle, Youth Today editor, blogger, author, friend, continues to pop up in places other than Youth Today for his expertise on and journalistic coverage of, well, youth-related issues.

This time, CNN caught up with him for a quote as part of its coverage of a civil trial about sexual abuse and secrecy in the Boy Scouts. (I could only find the transcript of the March 19 “Situation Room” broadcast where Patrick was quoted. Working on finding the video, but so far am not succeeding; see below for another segment with video.)

Patrick was on the case long before Wolf Blitzer et. al, however, having in 1994 written a book called “Scout’s Honor,” which documented sexual abuse in, as the subtitle reads, “America’s Most Trusted Institution” (read it online for free at Youth Today’s website).

Read more breaking about the Oregon Scout civil trial at Youth Today.org, which has additional links.

And if you work with disadvantaged youth and want the best news available on the subject, subscribe to Youth Today here. (Yes, I work with Patrick and the entire Youth Today gang and yes, I’m biased, but do it anyway!)

Update: We found another CNN segment featuring Patrick’s comments on the Scout story:

Don’t Miss This #1: Keeping Up in the Midst of Health Care News Dominance

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This week, health care will dominate the news so I’ll be trying to point out items that you shouldn’t miss, even as you applaud (or crack up) in the onslaught of health care coverage. Think of it as a prescription for what ails you, policy-coverage-overload-wise.

Dear father points out our first entry: A New York Times article about foreclosures in Boston. It tracks a program that’s offering families assistance after they’ve tossed their keys to the bank and stopped paying an underwater mortgage.  

From the NYT:

This counterintuitive solution — intervening after foreclosure rather than before — is the brainchild of Boston Community Capital, a nonprofit community development financial institution, and a housing advocacy group called City Life/Vida Urbana, working with law students and professors at Harvard Law School.

What else shouldn’t we miss? Tell us in comments!

Breaking Health Care News

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The Congressional Budget Office has released the cost estimate for the health care reconciliation package, which means the vote can be scheduled after a three-day bill-viewing period, according to just about every news organization and blog covering this today. Reports are that the vote will be on Sunday, which is the day President Obama was set to go to Australia and Asia. He postponed that trip again and will now go in June, everyone reported today.

So where can you view the bill(s)? Still checking on that.  View the proposals here.

When Only Certain Words Will Suffice

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When words like abstruse, opacity, delusional, and ugly collide, we can only be talking about one thing: Wall Street.

Those words came together in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show with Michael  Lewis, author of “The Big Short,” about the financial collapse of 2008 from the perspective of those who both saw it coming and raked in millions of dollars in its wake. It’s an engaging and interesting few minutes. I think the evidence accumulated by Lewis and many others points to a need for Congress to take strong action to repair what’s broken.

Call me a pessimist, but somehow I don’t think Dodd’s legislation is really going to cut it.

Watch here or below. (An interview with Dodd about the bill on C-SPAN follows.)

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