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...document will be powerful leverage for those who want to discredit that entire package as the work of charlatans who want to make the results of their recovery plan look better than they possibly could be. Changing the basic assumptions behind the Budget means going through the entire document, program by program, and resetting the investments and returns on the investment for each one. The $1.75 trillion deficit would grow, or some programs would have to be cut. The scope of the national health care reform plan would have to be revised...
...unsustainable fiction about the rate of economic growth stands between the validity of the entire program to right the American economy. And, the authors of this grand plan are not likely to change it no matter how much evidence is available to disprove it. The creators of this budget seem to believe that the American citizen is incapable of understanding that the financial prospects of the next year have worsened considerably since the budget was formulated...
...that low-income parents - indeed, most new parents - could use a little guidance. In some countries, like France, that guidance is institutionalized. Nurse home visits for all pregnant and new mothers are routine and free of charge, sponsored by the government. In the U.S. the national Nurse-Family Partnership program (NFP) covers about 16,300 families living in poverty in 25 states, but President Obama has said he plans to expand the benefit, extending it to every first-time poor mother in the country - about 570,000 women each year. The President's stimulus plan includes more than $3 billion...
...There's really no mystery to the program's success, says Olds. Simple interventions, like encouraging new parents to show affection to their children or to talk to them more, result in exponential rewards for babies. In poor families, adults tend to speak to babies only to issue commands, in a business-only style of parenting rather than talking to children to communicate affection, identify objects, introduce concepts or teach language - a phenomenon more common in middle-class and wealthy households. Studies have shown that by preschool age, children whose parents gesture or talk to them less in babyhood know...
...children's risks of later engaging in crime and suffering from addiction, mental illness, obesity and cardiovascular disease. The key, according to Olds' research, begins with properly trained nurses; home visits by paraprofessionals aren't as effective. Despite the current shortage of nurses in the U.S., Olds says his program is ready to grow. "The NFP is shovelready for substantial expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time." But it's an investment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another...