by Meghan Schiller | Aug 16, 2012 | Education, Science + Technology
Julia Child’s kitchen is the main ingredient to a new food exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Child donated her famous Cambridge, Mass., kitchen to the Washington museum in 2001 and on to celebrate what would have been Child’s...
by Simone Del Rosario | Aug 7, 2012 | Education, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — The population of Americans younger than 18 has grown in the last decade, but federal spending on children declined in 2011 for the first time since the early 1980s. The situation in Texas is even more severe, according to research and advocacy groups...
by Kevin Wang | Aug 6, 2012 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Large U.S. companies are expecting to pay more for their employees’ health care benefits in 2013, according to a survey released Monday. Meanwhile, many are adjusting to comply with the new health care law. Companies are projecting an average...
by Jenna Barnes | Aug 2, 2012 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act requires states to maintain eligibility requirements for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program through 2019. But Gov. Rick Perry and the Republican Governors Association oppose the provision, and some...
by Gino Vicci | Jul 19, 2012 | Science + Technology
The Community Education Group is a charitable organization based in Anacostia. The rate of new HIV infections in Washington is four time that of the national rate and in Anacostia more than 90 percent of new HIV infections are African-Americans, according to...
by Kimiteru Tsuruta | Jul 19, 2012 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Discoveries in science can help meet the needs of certain societal needs, but entrepreneurs fill a big gap that exists between the laboratory and marketplace. In 2011, the National Science Foundation started a program called Innovation Corps...
