{"id":227,"date":"2004-05-24T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T15:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/227"},"modified":"2004-05-24T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T15:22:32","slug":"making-society-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/227","title":{"rendered":"Making Society Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stargazettenews.com\/local\/Welocal6.html\">preventive program and how it reduces crime and other social ills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; 79 percent fewer cases of child abuse and neglect among the families who went through the program compared to the control group.<br \/>\n&#8211; 33 percent fewer subsequent pregnancies.<br \/>\n&#8211; 54 percent fewer arrests among 15-year-olds.<br \/>\n&#8211; 69 percent fewer convictions and probation violations among 15-year-olds.<br \/>\n&#8211; 58 percent fewer sexual partners among 15-year-olds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;for every $1 invested in prevention, $4 were saved in the future&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a good program, right? So do they want to implement it across the country?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the success of the Elmira programs, early-childhood prevention programs statewide are woefully inadequate, Wiley said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are also concerned that when economic conditions worsen and budgets get tight, preventive programs are often the first to get the ax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, public health programs are the first on the cutting board. For some reason politicians see saving a dollar now as more politically expedient than saving four or five times that in the future.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that old saying? Penny wise and pound foolish. That&#8217;s the government for you.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#108514284149195479\">Respectful of Otters<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on a preventive program and how it reduces crime and other social ills. &#8211; 79 percent fewer cases of child abuse and neglect among the families who went through the program compared to the control group. &#8211; 33 percent fewer subsequent pregnancies. &#8211; 54 percent fewer arrests among 15-year-olds. &#8211; 69 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}