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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

(Reuters) - In the six weeks since he succeeded his ailing brother Fidel Castro, new Cuban President Raul Castro has introduced a series of reforms to raise food output and end what he called “excessive prohibitions” in communist Cuba.
The following are some of the reforms undertaken so far:
* Decentralized agriculture to [...]

By Michael Christie
MIAMI (Reuters) - Environmental groups urged the Inter-American Development Bank on Saturday to stop lending money to big companies piling into the booming ethanol business that some critics say is partly to blame for soaring food prices.
As riots over the cost of living broke out in impoverished Haiti, the [...]

I%26#8217;m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans %26#151; but they%26#8217;re truly devastating in [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Krittivas Mukherjee PANDHARKAWDA, India, March 20 (Reuters) - Almost every farmer across India’s arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. Families have lost land, farmers have been asked [...]

By Marc Frank
HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist Cuba has lifted a ban on some farmers buying supplies in the latest sign that new President Raul Castro is looking to individual initiative to stimulate food production.
Agricultural sources told Reuters on Monday that Cuba will soon open stores for farmers to buy tools, herbicides, [...]

He scanned the picnic table full of his friends in a school courtyard one day a few weeks ago, and said, %26#8220;I%26#8217;m not hungry.%26#8221; On another day, a group of classmates who also qualify for federally subsidized lunches sat on a bench. One ate a slice of pizza from the line where students pay [...]

He scanned the picnic table full of his friends in a school courtyard one day a few weeks ago, and said, %26#8220;I%26#8217;m not hungry.%26#8221; On another day, a group of classmates who also qualify for federally subsidized lunches sat on a bench. One ate a slice of pizza from the line where students pay [...]

%26#8220;They couldn%26#8217;t believe their eyes,%26#8221; said the president of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Richard Connors. The cranes had been bred as part of an $11 million effort by an international partnership that includes the United States Geological Survey to re-establish a flock along the Eastern Flyway between Wisconsin and Central Florida.The birds%26#8217; touchdown in [...]

The official, Zhao Baige, vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, told reporters at a news conference that government officials recognize that China must alter its current population-control policies. %26#8220;We want incrementally to have this change,%26#8221; Ms. Zhao said, according to Reuters. %26#8220;I cannot answer at what time or how, [...]