Health Care

Future of TV Football

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The NFL is America’s most profitable television production. It dominates weekly television ratings each fall and completely takes over more than a third of American television sets on a day in early February each year. In 1939, NBC became the first network to televise a live professional football game. The Philadelphia Eagles game against the Brooklyn Dodgers was filmed with two cameras and a staff of 8. They reached 1000 television sets in New York City. Today NFL games drag in an audience of over 17 million viewers for an average regular season game.

American Values Survey

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A new report just published by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) "Anxiety, Nostalgia and Mistrust"

Health Care, Terrorism, and Jobs Most Critical Issues

When asked what issues are most important to them personally, Americans are more likely to
cite health care (63%), terrorism (62%), and jobs and unemployment (60%) than any other issue.
A majority (53%) of Americans report that crime is a critical issue to them personally. Slightly fewer
say the cost of education (49%), economic inequality (48%), and immigration (46%) are critical

Latinos 50, New American Vanguard

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Given Corporate America's ongoing obsession with the Youth and Millennials, this has been an appealing selling point that many have used to gain the commitment of marketers and secure marketing budgets. While true, the tide has officially turned and the 50+ segment of the Hispanic market gained some much-deserved attention at two concurrent, high profile industry forums.

The presentation highlighted several demographic updates and provided compelling insights to demonstrate why marketers should care about Hispanics 50+. These included:

Stepping Stones Outlook

The recently completed third quarter reminded us that financial markets entail risk even as the
Federal Reserve continues to pursue its extraordinary monetary policies adopted during the
financial crisis seven years ago. The third 10% stock market correction since the bull market
emerged in 2009 came after a record stretch of time without one. However, the volatility was
minor compared to the Black Monday crash of October 19, 1987 which convinced President
Reagan to establish the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Comprised of the

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YOGA THERAPY

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During the last 10 years, the number of articles in peer-reviewed journals worldwide about clinical trials of yoga therapy to alleviate disease-related symptoms increased 3-fold. This large-scale analysis of published research studies spanning 46 years, 29 countries, and more than 28,000 study participants is published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine website until September 17, 2015.

Pamela Jeter, PhD, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and Maryland University of Integrative Health (Laurel, MD), Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), and coauthors found that yoga therapy was most often used for the treatment of mental health, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. They report their findings in the article “Yoga as a Therapeutic Intervention: A Bibliometric Analysis of Published Research Studies from 1967 to 2013.” This study was supported in part by the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust (PYP USA).

SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

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80 years ago today, back in 1935, US Congress passed the Social Security Act and President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately signed it into law.

Provides for federal contributions of up to $15 a month a person, starting soon, to help states pension their most needy aged residents.

Establishes a great national annuity system by which an estimated 25,000,000 workers and their employers will be taxed billions of dollars through the years, and workers will be paid $10 to $85 a month by the government when they are 65 and jobless.

MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

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This is the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. For 50 years, Medicare and Medicaid have provided more than just a safety net – they have provided a lifeline to millions of Americans. These programs serve those who are most in need, and they have made a tremendous difference in the lives of so many, but also a difference in how we think about our social responsibility in this country.

US Congressman Joe Crowley says “We have moved so far from the days when seniors were going without health care because they couldn’t afford insurance, and from the days when working families worried about how to get health care for their children. Now we must keep that going for the next generation.

With Medicare and Medicaid, the US government made a promise to take care of those who need health care the most – a promise we continued with the Affordable Care Act, but that work is far from done.

CITY IMAGES salutes all who will fight to ensure that the next 50 years are marked by the same kind of progress and commitment to strengthening health care in this country as the past 50 years. Stand up to those who would do away with the guarantee of Medicare, ot would undermine Medicaid, and shred our nation’s social safety net into threads.

https://www.medicare.gov/

There are 2 main ways to get your Medicare coverage — Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage Plan (Part C). Use these steps to help you decide which way you want to get your coverage. Before you make a decision, you can get local, personalized Medicare counseling from the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP).

http://www.medicaid.gov/

US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new set of outreach and educational materials (called Living Well) to help Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies and partners emphasize the importance of the preventive services Medicaid and CHIP offer, like checkups, vaccines and screenings. The materials feature ready-to-use, posters, fact sheets, and social media posts, as well as tips for implementation.

http://www.hhs.gov/

The Health Insurance Marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act allows consumers to compare health insurance plans based on key factors, such as covered services, providers, and importantly, price. According to a report released today, choice and competition increased in the 2015 Marketplace and consumers benefitted as new issuers entered and price competition intensified. In 2015, 86 percent of Marketplace-eligible consumers could choose from at least three issuers, up from 70 percent in 2014.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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Global efforts to stop human trafficking continue to gain support. The Department of State’s Office has increased the monitoring and combating of trafficking in persons, which is headed by Acting Director Kari Johnstone. The effort leads the United States' global engagement against human trafficking, an umbrella term used to describe the activities involved when someone obtains or holds a person in compelled service.

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/index.htm

Here us what individuals can do:

Stepping Stones Management Commentary

These letters often stray from the rule to avoid politics and religion but they rarely venture into the

latter realm. However, one of the major stories of the just concluded second quarter was the papal

encyclical admonishing humanity for turning the earth, God’s creation, into “an immense pile of

filth.” In Laudato Si’ – Our Care For Our Common Home, Pope Francis is asking us to see our

world more like his namesake St. Francis of Assisi who viewed all of the earth’s plants, animals

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ESCAPING ISIS

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The battle against ISIS has been waged largely by men. But it is women and children who have borne some of the more horrific violence, with thousands forced into slavery, where they have been subjected to rape and other forms of torture.

Sexual violence has a long history in war, but ISIS has built it into their bureaucracy, with dedicated slave markets and price lists based on the victims’ ages, according to Zainab Hawa Bangura, the United Nations’ special representative on sexual violence in conflict.