Scanning Kentucky and Horizon

• Children's Obesity-Related Hospitalizations Almost Double
• Scores on ACT Show Majority of Students Not College-Ready
• State Looks at Prison Spending
• Online Education Found Superior in Study

• Kentucky ranked 49th for personal well-being
• Achievement gap in U.S. schools cuts national output
• Coal braces for big changes in policy
• Wave of boomer teacher retirements looms
• Paying in full as the ticket into colleges
• Share of births to unmarried women reaches record high

• Continuing Shortage of Primary Care Providers
• Barriers to college affordability threaten to mount in economic downturn
• As chronic diseases increase, so do the costs

• Fully funded pension systems in good shape
• Recession just the beginning?
• Early childhood investment yields savings, benefits

• Faltering economy hits state budgets
• Coal demand, cost spikes
• Health care spending predicted to reach $4.3 trillion by 2017

• Federal budget shortfalls forecast to squeeze state funds
• Gambling generates revenue; takes unknown toll
• States work to plug 'brain drain'

• Focusing on student achievement
• Americans less healthy overall
• Immigration issue multifaceted

• MIT team urges national policy to advance "clean coal" technology
• Economists tout value of reducing dropouts
• Universal health care tops public's domestic priorities

• Employers Seek Options as Health Care Costs Climb
• New Laws Prohibit Smoking Around Children
• Though Increases Smaller Than in Recent Past, Tuition Still a Burden

• Retirement Picture Changing
• Deficits, Entitlements Threaten Nation's Fiscal Future
• Concern Over Rising Health Care Costs Deepens

• Putting Higher Education Back in Reach
• Retiree Crisis Looms as Pension and Health Care Benefits Vanish
• Primary Care, the Foundation of Health Care, on Verge of Collapse

• Education reform is a work in progress
• Pensions on dangerous ground

• Living longer, working longer?
• Americans support high school changes
• Financial aid rules for college changing

• New Census Data Released on Commute Times
• Innovative Approaches Are Getting Educational Results
• Is Kaiser A Model for the Future of Health Care?

• Finding Ways to Cut Health Care Costs
• Financial Security of Older Citizens At Risk
• Power Plant Pollution Compensation Sought
• Fiscal Picture Brightening But Dark Clouds Remain

• Secondhand Smoke
• Is Our Commitment to Poor Elders Waning?
• Retirement in the Red?
• Cash-Strapped Schools Adopt New Strategies
• Prison Overcrowding, Long Sentences Costing Cash-Short States

• Stubborn Core Issues Continue to Dog States
• Higher Education Costs, Scrutiny Rise
• Health Care Conundrum Deepens
• Rederal and State Budgets Still Reeling

• State Budget Gaps Grow at Alarming Rate
• Cuts Imperil Health Coverage for States' Poor
• Health Care Costs High on Public's List of Worries
• More Mothers of Infants Forego Employment
• Justices Allow Drug-Cost Plan to Go Forward
• Northeast Taxes Driving Elders from Their Homes
• Black Children in Deep Poverty Rising
• More States Cut Aid for Child Care

• States Pass the Buck on College Costs
• Uninsured Costs Get Business' Attention
• Study Tallies Toll of Health Care Gap
• More Are Old, Ill, and Uninsured
• Small Firms Short on Health Care
• Smaller May Be Better After All

• State Leaders Face Fiscal Crisis
• States Move to Contain Medicaid Costs
• Tax Cut May Affect State Revenues
• Health Care Spending Soars
• Many Women Smoke to Control Weight

• States Hit with Record Deficits
• Cigarette Tax Improves Smokers' Well-Being
• Health Care Costs Again Soar
• Water Infrastructure May Require $1 Trillion
• New Drugs Save Dollars Overall

• Cigarette Taxes Rx for Budget and Health Woes
• States Scramble to Plug Budget Holes
• Study Shows the Uninsured at Increased Risk
• Education Gains with a Caveat
• States Spend Big on Elusive Biotech Corridors

• Medical Spending on Upward Trajectory
• Cost of College Daunting Debt for Many
• Obesity, Smoking Exact High Costs

• Effects of Recession on States' Finances Are Staggering
• Affordable Housing Linked to Jobs and Education
• One in Ten U.S. Residents Foreign-Born
• U.S. Physician Shortage Predicted
• Maternity Leave Time Shorter
• Prison Closures Up Due to Budget Deficits

• Elderly Use More, Pay More for Prescription Drugs
• Health Care Gaps May Widen for Boomers
• Anticipating the Unthinkable
• Putting Tobacco to Healthy Use
• Rural Residencies Restoring WV Health Care
• Status of Hispanic Kentuckians Key to Future

• States Find Remedies for Prescription Drug Costs
• Coal Markets Heat Up
• Kindergarten Gives Kids Learning Edge
• Evolution of Family Structures Still Underway

• Chronic Disease Costly and Often Preventable
• States Tighten Fiscal Belts
• Farm Numbers Down
• Clean Fuel Technology Advances
• Philly Leaders Push Pounds Off

• Manufacturing Losses Buffet North Carolina
• Parents of Most Uninsured Kids Uninformed About Options
• Natural Gas Costs Take Unexpected Budget Bite
• Governors Advocate Medicaid Changes
• High School Courses Linked to College Graduation
• Child Poverty Falls But Still Short of Historic Lows

• Literacy Efforts Getting Big Boost
• Coal Could Be on the Comeback Trail
• Value of Technology in Classrooms Questioned
• Development Trending to Regional, Collaborative Focus
• Kentucky Higher Education in Middle of the Pack
• More Americans Insured in 2000

• High Drug Costs Trouble Patients and Providers
• Literacy Gaps Hamper Industry Growth
• Welfare Reform Pays Unexpected Dividends
• Jobs of the Future Demand Postsecondary Education
• Is Growing Isolation at Root of Social Ills?
• Female Boomers Shoulder More, Receive Less
• Tobacco Buyout Is Sign of the Times

• Farmers' Worst Fears Realized
• State Growing Older
• Wealthy Kentuckians Make Gains, Poor Lose Ground
• Electronic Shoppers Double
• Digital Divide Still Wide
• Eastern Coal Reserves Dwindling

• Today's Children, Tomorrow's Workforce
• The Looming Cost of Retiring Boomers
• Ambitious Postsecondary Goals Set
• Remedies for Kentucky's Income Gulf
• Welfare Reform Creating Losers and Winners
• Cost Cutting Blamed for Health Industry Losses

• Virtual Classes Now Online
• Litter Bugs Policymakers
• Quality Early Education Yields Lifelong Benefits
• Uninsured Population Keeps Rising
• Casinos and Crime Rates

• Kentucky's "Digital Divide" Among Widest in Nation
• Kentucky Smoking Rates Lead the Nation
• All-Day Kindergarten Offers Learning Edge
• Downtown Areas Blossoming
• Gap Between Rich and Poor May Affect Health
• Young Mothers Staying in School

• Confronting the Limits of Public Resources
• Faltering Medicare Funding
• The Burden of Big Prison Populations
• Paying for a Higher Educational Status
• The Persistently "Gray" Federal Budget
• Public Health at Risk

• Rural Communities Help Themselves
• Health Departments Face Financial Crisis
• Finding Productive Uses of Landfill Alternative
• E-Commerce Eases, Complicates Business
• Quality Child Care Offers Huge Societal Rewards

• Kentucky's Wage Gap Now 5th-Largest in Nation
• State Level of Spending on Day Care Questioned
• Internet Traffic Exploding
• U.S. Health Care Costs Expected to Double by 2007
• Making the Grade Earns Money for College

• Many Teachers Untrained in Subjects They Teach
• The New Demoimages of Education
• Longer Lives Compelling New Order
• Uncle Sam Vital to Kentucky's Economy

• U.S. High School Seniors Don't Make Math & Science Grade
• School's Open-Door Policy Sparks Community Involvement
• New Needs for an Old Alternative
• Too Many Math Graduates Missing Teaching Mark

Foresight, Volume 5, Number 1

• Closing the Income Gap
• A Strong Education-Earnings Link
• Welfare to Work an Unfamiliar Path for Some
• Inclusion a Key Education Goal
• Hemp May Hold Unexpected Promise

Foresight, Volume 4, Number 4

• Ongoing Challenge of Welfare Reform Remains Daunting
  • Too Few Jobs for Welfare Recipients
  • Venture Grants in Louisville
  • Early Outcomes of a Pilot Welfare Program

• Garment Industry Layoffs Rock Local Economies
  • Campbellsville
  • Columbia

• Preretirement Uninsured Population on Rise
• The Demands of Devolution
• Small Farms, Big Possibilities
• Health Care Costs May Leap
• A New Twist on "Back to School"

• Help When Would-Be Dropouts Need It
• Numbers and Need of Poor Children Grew
• Children Being Left Behind in the South
• County-Level Wealth Shows Rewards of Learning
• Nurturing Healthy Brains
• Early Returns on School-to-Work

• Incomes, Inequality on Rise in South
• The High Cost of Highways
• Jobs, Higher Earnings Await Educated Kentuckians
• Soaring Tuition Rates Limiting Access to Opportunity
• Good and Bad Literacy News

Foresight, Volume 3, Number 4

• Reversing the Legacy of Undereducation
• New Perspectives on the Age of Age
• In the Library of the World
• The Status of Women in Kentucky
• A Safety Net for Capitalism

Foresight, Volume 3, Number 3

• Inequalities Persist and Deepen
• Our Ailing Health Care System
• Improving Children's Lives
• Holding on to Our Own
• Rising Tuition Limiting Access
• Higher Education=Higher Earnings

Foresight, Volume 3, Number 2

• Rethinking the K-12 System
• New Product Potential for Tobacco
• Texas Streamlines Workforce Efforts
• The Economic Ladder and the Environment
• Job Ghettos Expanding
• Making Preventive Care Pay

Foresight, Volume 3, Number 1

• Perspectives on Crime
• New Takes on the Newest Federalism
• State Budget Surpluses Likely Short Lived
• Coal's Long-Range Future Uncertain
• Budget Impact Uncertain

Foresight, Volume 2, Number 4

• U.S. Children Poorer Than Others
• Congress to Hand Over Budget Decisions to States
• Rural American Population Growing
• Over Half of Kentuckians Overweight
• State's University Funding Lags Behind Others in South
• Prison Spending On The Rise At Expense Of Education

Foresight, Summer 1995

• Belt Tightening for Higher Education
• Building the Capital of Community
• U.S. Wages Falling, Global Joblessness Rising
• Changing Children's Lives
• America's Emerging Class System

Foresight, Spring 1995

• New Care for the Newly Old
• The Economics of Child Poverty
• R&D Investment and Our Future
• Creating "Well-Connected Communities"
• The Coming Battle Over Benefits to the Old
• Assessing the Risk of Public Misunderstanding
• Who Cares for Our Children?
• The Question of Consolidating Counties
• Planning for Farming's Future

Foresight, Winter 1995

• The Insidious Effects of Income Inequality
• New Markets for an Old Crop
• Lessons from School Reform
• Trickle-Up Development
• Resolving the Health Care Dilemma
• A Gliimpse of Future Governance

Foresight, Fall 1994

• The Information Superhighway
• Child Welfare Concerns
• Tree-Free Paper
• Social Capital
• Adult Day Care

Foresight, Summer 1994

• Benchmarking—Results-Oriented Government
• Experiences and Experiments with Apprencticeship
• Recession-Proof Job Skills?
• New Fiscal Realities
• Facilitating Technology Transfer
• Future Health Care Scenarios