Do your job and see what happens. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services suffered a 4 percent cut in funding in the new state budget, reports “Fiscal Focus” (July). “The decline…can be attributed to a significant decrease in caseload. The number of children moving to permanent and more appropriate placement through adoption and subsidized guardianship has directly decreased caseloads and reduced the growth of foster care spending.”
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“Fifteen years ago, a woman might have been told that she couldn’t ‘handle’ a job in academia,” says John Marshall Law School professor Diane Kaplan (John Marshall Comment, Summer). “After proving that she could indeed handle a classroom, she might be told that a woman who is a mother ‘cannot appropriately be committed to the rigors of the job.’ If people are resistant, they’ll keep coming up with barriers.”
“The Congressional Hispanic Caucus uses tobacco money to print a slick directory to Hispanic organizations and Hispanic members of Congress,” writes James Garcia in “Politico” (June 22). “The National Association of Hispanic Publications–whose members include more than 100 Spanish-language and bilingual weekly newspapers across the country–let Philip Morris Company pay for its main awards banquet and other projects. And the NALEO [National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials] hosted a panel on the future of Hispanic children sponsored by tobacco money.”
