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Focus Magazine

Focus Magazine

July/August (35/4)

July/August 2007 Focus -Full Issues

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In This Issue...
1 Addressing the Crisis of Infant Mortality: An Examination of Race and Gender

1 African American Women and Breastfeeding

2 From the President’s Desk

3 Infant Mortality Rates: An Indication of Overall Well-Being

5 Relationality: A Response to Infant Mortality

7 Girls in the ‘Hood: Sexual Culture and Its Implications for Youth

9 The Effects of A Lifetime: The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Birth Outcomes, Q&A with Drs. James W. Collins, Jr. and Richard David

19 Reports of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s Infant Mortality Commission

20 Joint Center Updates

11 Health Report: Maternal Nutrition and Infant Mortality

13 Economic Report: The Tragic Loss of the Summer Jobs Program: Why it is Time to Reinstate!

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Did You Know?

Did you know that only 29 percent of African American adults surveyed in an October-November 2005 Joint Center poll expected Social Security to be their major source of retirement income? Fewer of them (20 percent) expected an employer-sponsored pension plan to be their major source of income, and more (42 percent) expected that their major source of income would be their own retirement savings and investments.

Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, National Opinion Poll of African American Adults About Social Security and Wealth, 2005.