Word: apgar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Devastated by this news, the parents reviewed oddities surrounding their daughter's birth at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1978. After delivery, their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their...
...report, prepared by Apgar and Professor of City and Regional Planning H. James Brown and sponsored by the Ford Foundation, says America is divided into two nations--"housing 'haves' and housing 'havenots...
...groups hit the hardest by the housing crunch are low-income and young households, the report says. Apgar said two million young households "would own a home today if the home ownership rates did not decline so sharply since 1980." Rent costs have also increased, rising at a rate 14 percent higher than other prices since 1981, according to the report...
Because housing is so unaffordable, the report said families are forced to stay in rental homes. Brown and Apgar said in the study that they estimate, "Young, single parent families with children pay over 50 percent of their income on rent." And those who cannot afford to rent homes remain in subsidized housing or are forced onto the streets, the report says...
...Apgar and Brown said they would not make specific policy recommendations because the study was intended to focus on the "breadth" of the situation...