How Large Has the Federal Financial Safety Net Become?

The Federal Safety Net: Effective but Vulnerable Programs

The fight over the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in Summer/Fall 2007 highlights the fragility of the U.S. safety net. Ballooning federal deficits threaten all social spending in this country, but programs for vulnerable women and children may be most at risk. Unlike Social Security, most of these programs must be periodically reauthorized in order to c...

The relationship between safety net activities and hospital financial performance

BACKGROUND During the 1990's hospitals in the U.S were faced with cost containment charges, which may have disproportionately impacted hospitals that serve poor patients. The purposes of this paper are to study the impact of safety net activities on total profit margins and operating expenditures, and to trace these relationships over the 1990s for all U.S urban hospitals, controlling for hospi...

Abstract—Mining Sequential Patterns in large databases has become

Mining Sequential Patterns in large databases has become an important data mining task with broad applications. It is an important task in data mining field, which describes potential sequenced relationships among items in a database. There are many different algorithms introduced for this task. Conventional algorithms can find the exact optimal Sequential Pattern rule but it takes a long time,...

How to become a professor in epidemiology?

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Transition to a Functional Financial Safety Net in