Newtown shooting prompts calls for mental health reform

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Newtown shooting prompts calls for mental health reform: States have cut at least $4.35 billion in public mental health spending from 2009 to 2012, or about 12% of their total budgets, according to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Inpatient hospital care is even more elusive.



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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...
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