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Trading Horizons And The Value Of Money, Gabriele Camera, Filip Vesely Jan 2007

Trading Horizons And The Value Of Money, Gabriele Camera, Filip Vesely

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

This paper shows that flat money can be feasible and essential even if the trading horizon is finite and deterministic. The result hinges on two features of our model. First, individual actions can affect the future availability of productive resources. So, agents may be willing to sell for money, even if on that date they have no reason to accept it. This makes monetary trade feasible in all preceding dates. Second, agents are anonymous and direct their search for partners. So, gift-giving arrangements may be prevented because agents can misrepresent their consumption needs. This makes money essential in exploiting any …

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The Gingrich Who Stole Compassion: Why The Two C'S Can't Teach The Three R'S: A Commentary On Compassionate Conservatism And Teaching Social Justice, Dr. Harold Rodinsky Ph.D. Jan 2007

The Gingrich Who Stole Compassion: Why The Two C'S Can't Teach The Three R'S: A Commentary On Compassionate Conservatism And Teaching Social Justice, Dr. Harold Rodinsky Ph.D.

Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice

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Bridging The Gaps: Structuring Benefits To Promote Mobility For Low Wage Workers, Randy Albelda, Heather Boushey Jan 2007

Bridging The Gaps: Structuring Benefits To Promote Mobility For Low Wage Workers, Randy Albelda, Heather Boushey

Center for Social Policy Publications

Low-wage workers have always faced difficulties earning enough to meet their basic needs in the context of the complex financial tradeoffs between receiving public benefits and taking on any or more employment. However, welfare reform and skyrocketing housing and medical costs have exacerbated these challenges to low income families, policy makers, and the providers and agencies that serve them. Employment – often at low-wages – is imperative for most families and, even with supplementary public benefits, financial independence is not easy to achieve for many working families. Wages are too often too low to meet the high cost of living …

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Investigating The Heart Of A Community: Archaeological Excavations At The African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, David B. Landon, Teresa Dujnic, Kate Descoteaux, Susan Jacobucci, Darios Felix, Marisa Patalano, Ryan Kennedy, Diana Gallagher, Ashley Peles, Jonathan Patton, Heather Trigg, Allison Bain, Cheryl Laroche Jan 2007

Investigating The Heart Of A Community: Archaeological Excavations At The African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, David B. Landon, Teresa Dujnic, Kate Descoteaux, Susan Jacobucci, Darios Felix, Marisa Patalano, Ryan Kennedy, Diana Gallagher, Ashley Peles, Jonathan Patton, Heather Trigg, Allison Bain, Cheryl Laroche

Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Publications

In collaboration with the Museum of African American History, an archaeological research team from the University of Massachusetts Boston carried out a data recovery excavation at the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. The African Meeting House was a powerful social institution for 19thcentury Boston’s free black community. The site played an important role in the abolition movement, the creation of educational opportunity, and other community action for social and political equality. The Meeting House was originally built in 1806, and renovations in preparation for the 2006 bi-centennial celebration prompted an investigation of areas of the property to be impacted …

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Review Of Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts And Dinosaur Digs, University Of Alberta Jan 2007

Review Of Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts And Dinosaur Digs, University Of Alberta

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

We tend to rate smarter animals, like crows and naturalists, by their degree of behavioral versatility. If polymathic interest correlates with intellect, John Acorn is a very bright naturalist indeed. He has written field guides to insects and birds of Alberta's prairies, mountains, and badlands. His versatility emerges through media popularization of these topics, in series like The Nature Nut and more recently Deep Alberta, a set of radio vignettes about Alberta's fossilized past. But does Acorn's range skim the surface like a light breeze, or does his insight scour deep to Cretaceous bedrock? Judging by Acorn's Deep Alberta: …

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Physiological Responses Of Four Hazelnut Hybrids To Water Availability In Nebraska, Tala Awada, Scott Josiah Jan 2007

Physiological Responses Of Four Hazelnut Hybrids To Water Availability In Nebraska, Tala Awada, Scott Josiah

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Responses of hazelnut hybrids (88BS, BOX1, Gl7, and GEL502) to water availability (watered and nonwatered) were examined in the field. The study site received 35% of long-term average precipitation between July and September. Photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (gs), water potential (Ψ), and specific leaf area were generally lower in the nonwatered than in the watered treatment and exhibited significant seasonal decline, which was accompanied by an increase in water use efficiency (WUE) under both water treatments. Hybrids exhibited different strategies to cope with water availability. The hybrid 88BS was more water conserving, with the most decline in g …

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Review Of Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis, Matthew G. Hill Jan 2007

Review Of Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis, Matthew G. Hill

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Paleoamerican Origins is a compilation of23 papers, most of them expanded versions of presentations or posters given at "Clovis and Beyond" in Santa Fe in late October of 1999, "the greatest Ice Age American conference of the twentieth century" according to Kenneth Tankersley in his 2002 In Search of Ice Age Americans. It follows up New Perspectives on the First Americans (Lepper and Bonnichsen, 2004), a slim volume comprised of30 short, preliminary papers; eight contributors to Paleoamerican Origins also have papers in New Perspectives. Thus, these two volumes contain the published versions of about half of the …

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Review Of Wild Orchids Ofthe Prairies And Great Plains Region Of North America., Doris Ames Jan 2007

Review Of Wild Orchids Ofthe Prairies And Great Plains Region Of North America., Doris Ames

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

There are orchidophiles who think big, and the prolific author of this book, which covers a vast geographical area and includes 73 species and varieties of wild orchids, is surely one of them.

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Grassland Birds In Restored Grassland Of The Rainwater Basin Region In Nebraska, Jill Sporrong Utrup, Craig A. Davis Jan 2007

Grassland Birds In Restored Grassland Of The Rainwater Basin Region In Nebraska, Jill Sporrong Utrup, Craig A. Davis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Conservationists and managers mention grassland restorations as a conservation strategy to reverse the decline of grassland bird populations in the Great Plains. In the Rainwater Basin Region of southcentral Nebraska, state and federal resource agencies have used grassland restorations to protect wetlands from sedimentation and agrichemical runoff. These grassland restorations may also provide important habitat for breeding grassland birds. In this paper, we describe the abundance, composition, nesting success, and habitat requirements of breeding birds in grassland restorations in the Rainwater Basin Region. We observed 14 grassland bird species in 12 grassland restorations. The most abundant species were dickcissels ( …

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Review Of False Expectations: Politics And The Pursuit Ofthe Saskatchewan Myth, Cristine De Clercy Jan 2007

Review Of False Expectations: Politics And The Pursuit Ofthe Saskatchewan Myth, Cristine De Clercy

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

For much of its history Saskatchewan has been a net exporter of people, mainly to adjacent Great Plains locales and across North America. Many expatriates retain psychological ties to this prairie province that stretch beyond familial or historical connections, and this deep sense of identity is puzzling to students of prairie polities. Unlike other established societies with high out-migration levels such as Newfoundland, Saskatchewan was settled fairly recently, and many families lived there for one or two generations at most before leaving. How is it that in a relatively brief period many new immigrants developed such a deep and abiding …

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Review Of Queer Youth In The Province Of The "Severely Normal.", Doreen Fumia Jan 2007

Review Of Queer Youth In The Province Of The "Severely Normal.", Doreen Fumia

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Gloria Filax poses an important question that has a specific context for the conservatism found in the Canadian prairies, yet is more generally applicable to modern western societies: Can queer youth, who struggle to define themselves as "normal," negotiate a place of social belonging where heterosexual norms still dominate? She problematizes this question through a complicated mixture of ethnography, discourse analysis, history, and theory. Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal" tells a story about how queer youth in Alberta in the 1990s, unlike their heterosexual counterparts, have been actively excluded from social supports and public education that …

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Annual Index For Vol.17 (2007) Jan 2007

Annual Index For Vol.17 (2007)

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

5 pages

Acorn, John. Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs, reviewed, 17:232
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Zontek, Ken. Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison, reviewed, 17:225

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Review Of Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life On A Reserve, Robert Alexander Innes Jan 2007

Review Of Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life On A Reserve, Robert Alexander Innes

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Harold LeRat's book provides details of the history of the early years of the Cowessess First Nation. LeRat, an Elder from the Cowessess Reserve in Sakatchewan, is a farmer/rancher by trade, not a trained historian. Yet he, along with Linda Ungar, has pieced together a narrative based on oral stories, personal reflections, and an impressive collection of archival documents.

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Review Of Indian Gaming And Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise., James V. Fenelon Jan 2007

Review Of Indian Gaming And Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise., James V. Fenelon

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This is an excellent book, with a couple of provisos. Considering the relative dearth of material on the relationship between tribal sovereignty and Indian gaming, the authors have probably the best work currently in print. Light and Rand take us through three major frameworks that clarify these complex relationships: federal Indian law and policy (their area of specialty); laws and constructions of Indian gaming and tribal sovereignty; and the associated politics of Indian gaming in a number of contexts. It is in their handling of the fourth framework, where they try to identify an "indigenous perspective," which either doesn't exist …

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Review Of The National Grasslands: A Guide To America's Undiscovered Treasures., Mary Ann Vinton Jan 2007

Review Of The National Grasslands: A Guide To America's Undiscovered Treasures., Mary Ann Vinton

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The aptly named "guide to America's undiscovered treasures" is an informative and user-friendly summary of the areas that comprise the 4 million-acre national grassland system. The terrain, plants, wildlife, public facilities, and unique features of each of the 20 grasslands ranging from western Oregon to eastern North Dakota are described, with detailed maps and 10utras's evocative photography interspersed throughout. Most areas (17 of 20) are located in the Great Plains. The aim of the book is ambitious: Moul attempts to place the national grasslands in context, with a look at the history of the grassland system as well as an …

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Notes And News For Vol.17 No.2 Jan 2007

Notes And News For Vol.17 No.2

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Understanding Sacred Lands, Roxanne T. Ornelas Jan 2007

Understanding Sacred Lands, Roxanne T. Ornelas

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Recognition of the human right for indigenous peoples to freely express their spiritual beliefs is essential to expanding tolerance for the earth-based spirituality of many indigenous peoples. Awareness of such beliefs must be extended to support the spiritual significance of what indigenous peoples believe are their sacred lands. Physical landmarks such as mountains or rivers hold essential spiritual meaning for many tribes. Linkages to indigenous peoples' knowledge systems can yield a greater understanding of their social values and cultural differences in public debates over human rights and their struggles to protect their sacred lands. This paper reviews the impact of …

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Review Of Being Lakota: Identity And Tradition On Pine Ridge Reservation., Paula L. Wagoner Jan 2007

Review Of Being Lakota: Identity And Tradition On Pine Ridge Reservation., Paula L. Wagoner

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Identity everywhere is complicated, but, in my experience, nowhere as complicated as on the contemporary Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This book is about one family "down East" in the small town of Allen, South Dakota, just over the Bennett County line. Petrillo does not seek to give an exhaustive picture of identity on Pine Ridge, focusing instead primarily on one married couple, Melda and Lupe Trejo and their narrative of their life together. Their lives are not necessarily emblematic of all the residents of Pine Ridge, but illustrate the ways in which personal, family, and religious identities are intertwined, flexible, …

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Prairie Sandreed Response To Preceding-Year Defoliation And Precipitation Regime, Patrick E. Reece, Justin W. Morris, Walter H. Schacht, Ann E. Koehler, Jerry D. Vole Sky, Lowell E. Moser Jan 2007

Prairie Sandreed Response To Preceding-Year Defoliation And Precipitation Regime, Patrick E. Reece, Justin W. Morris, Walter H. Schacht, Ann E. Koehler, Jerry D. Vole Sky, Lowell E. Moser

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Knowledge of how current-year grazing and drought stress affect subsequent-year herbage production is needed to enhance the management of semiarid Sandhills prairies. This study quantifies subsequent- year effects of defoliation and precipitation on prairie sandreed (Calamovilfa longijolia), a high-seral, warm-season tallgrass, and total graminoid herbage production in the Nebraska Sandhills. Mainplots (9.0 m2) received either ambient precipitation (noncovered) or precipitation was excluded during April-May, June-July, or August-September, resulting in 66% to 135% of the long-term average (434 mm) precipitation. All species in 1.0 m2 defoliated subplots were clipped in early July at the stubble height required for 30%, …

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Review Of The Nature Of Eastern North Dakota: Pre-1880 Historical Ecology, Dennis H. Knight Jan 2007

Review Of The Nature Of Eastern North Dakota: Pre-1880 Historical Ecology, Dennis H. Knight

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Biologists, anthropologists, and land managers have at least two primary reasons for digging deeply into the journals of early explorers and inhabitants of an area. One is pure enjoyment, the kind that comes with learning from firsthand observers about the environment, people, flora, and fauna that existed over a century ago. Another is coming to a better understanding of the development of the ecosystems on which we now depend, and thereby gaining insights into how to achieve the elusive goal of sustainable land management while protecting the biological diversity that remains. Accessing this information is taxing, occurring as it does …

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Review Of Hidden Victims: The Effects Of The Death Penalty On Families Of The Accused, Mark Costanzo Jan 2007

Review Of Hidden Victims: The Effects Of The Death Penalty On Families Of The Accused, Mark Costanzo

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The debate over capital punishment is driven by data and stories. Social scientists have amassed and analyzed mountains of data on issues like deterrence, public opinion, racial bias, and financial cost, data that have convinced most social scientists and much of the general public that the death penalty ought to be abandoned. But support for or opposition to capital punishment is not guided by a dispassionate analysis of data alone. It is also fueled by stories. There are the stories of the murderers and their horrible crimes. There are the stories of the victims whose lives were tragically cut short, …

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Native Land Acquisition In The Minnesota River Valley, Laura J. Smith Jan 2007

Native Land Acquisition In The Minnesota River Valley, Laura J. Smith

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The economic issues that often arise from Native land acquisition and development can strain relationships between American Indian tribes and non-Indian local governments. As Indian tribes expand their landholdings, political and economic landscapes are transformed. This paper examines intergovernmental relationships and the characteristics and impacts of recent land acquisitions made by two Dakota Indian communities in the Minnesota River Valley of Minnesota. The Upper Sioux Community has enjoyed a level of cooperation from local communities in their rural land acquisitions, while the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community has experienced vigorous opposition to their urban land acquisitions. Geographic situation may help to …

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Review Of Like A Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And The Legal History Of Racism In America, Alexandra Page Jan 2007

Review Of Like A Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, And The Legal History Of Racism In America, Alexandra Page

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In Like a Loaded Weapon, Robert A. Williams Jr. argues that reliance by the courts on racist precedents from the nineteenth century perpetuates racism against American Indians and prevents Native tribes and nations from vindicating their human rights, both under the law and in society more broadly. Taking his title from a dissenting opinion in the infamous 1944 Korematsu decision of the Supreme Court, which upheld the forced relocation and internment of thousands of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II, Williams cogently demonstrates how racially biased patterns of Janguage and belief incorporated into legal opinions pose a …

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Potential Aboriginal-Occupation-Induced Dune Activity, Elbow Sand Hills, Northern Great Plains, Canada, Stephen A. Wolfe, Chris H. Hugenholtz, Christopher P. Evans, D. J. Huntley, Jeff Ollerhead Jan 2007

Potential Aboriginal-Occupation-Induced Dune Activity, Elbow Sand Hills, Northern Great Plains, Canada, Stephen A. Wolfe, Chris H. Hugenholtz, Christopher P. Evans, D. J. Huntley, Jeff Ollerhead

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Geomorphological and archeological evidence indicates potential linkages between Plains aboriginal occupation and dune activity in the Elbow Sand Hills of southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Vegetation encroachment has rapidly outpaced migration of an active dune complex over the last 65 years. Optical ages of stabilized dune remnants indicate that dune activity predates Euro-Canadian settlement (ca. AD 1900). Early Euro-Canadian explorers observed local occupation and exploitation of the sand hills by aboriginal groups for herding and impounding bison. Mapping of archeological sites in relation to physiography reveals that sand dunes, in close proximity to permanent water resources, were preferred areas of occupation. Collectively, …

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“The Rise Of American Democracy: Jefferson To Lincoln” By Sean Wilentz, Cedric De Leon Jan 2007

“The Rise Of American Democracy: Jefferson To Lincoln” By Sean Wilentz, Cedric De Leon

Sociology Department Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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American Indian Transportation Issues In South Dakota, Tracey Mcmahon Jan 2007

American Indian Transportation Issues In South Dakota, Tracey Mcmahon

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper provides an overview of tribal transportation obstacles. My primary focus is on the quality of reservation roads and its relationship to funding and politics. The Indian reservation road system is one of the most underdeveloped transportation networks in the United States. A majority of these roads are dirt and gravel and, therefore, dangerous for traveling. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives between ages one and 44 (Hamilton 2003). Because federal funds for tribal transportation fall short of transportation needs, tribes do not have enough money for either road construction …

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Impacts Of Davisco's Lake Norden Cheese Plant, Linnea C. Swanson Jan 2007

Impacts Of Davisco's Lake Norden Cheese Plant, Linnea C. Swanson

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper addresses the regional impact of the Davisco Foods International cheese plant in Lake Norden, South Dakota. Since opening in November 2003, the $40 million plant has exerted a growing influence on dairying throughout eastern South Dakota and adjacent areas, as well as influencing the community of Lake Norden, the cultural landscape, the economy, and the environment in various ways. Each topic is investigated from a geographic perspective based primarily on field research. As the plant continues to expand, its impact on the covered topics deepens, both negatively and positively.

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The Effect Of Parental Education On Emotions And Behaviors, Chelsea Parkinson, Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam Jan 2007

The Effect Of Parental Education On Emotions And Behaviors, Chelsea Parkinson, Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

Current literature suggests that emotions are learned through socialization. The following study was completed using results compiled by a survey done for the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Sociology of Rural America course (Soc 240). The authors wished to ask the question "Do the education levels of parents affect the emotions and behaviors of their children?" There were approximately 540 respondents to this survey, all college students at SDSU. Questions dealing with students' emotions were analyzed with respect to each respective student's parents' education level. The findings suggested that there is a connection between the parents' education levels and the …

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Sports Spectator Behavior For Collegiate Women’S Basketball, Jennifer Y. Mak, Anita N. Lee, Juliet Donahue Jan 2007

Sports Spectator Behavior For Collegiate Women’S Basketball, Jennifer Y. Mak, Anita N. Lee, Juliet Donahue

Management Faculty Research

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the Desire to attend collegiate women’s basketball (DES) and three aspects of attending collegiate women's basketball games. The participants were spectators of a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's basketball game ranging in age from 18 to 70 (N = 312). The Modified Sports Consumers Questionnaire (Milne & McDonald, 1999) was administered during a basketball game. After exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), three factors (Habit, Attitude, and Satisfaction) with 19 items were retained for Sports Spectator Behavior (SSB). Structural equation modeling was used …

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Disparities In Access To Healthcare: The Case Of A Drug And Alcohol Abuse Detoxification Treatment Program Among Minority Groups In A Texas Hospital, Alberto Coustasse, Karan P. Singh, Fernando M. Trevino Jan 2007

Disparities In Access To Healthcare: The Case Of A Drug And Alcohol Abuse Detoxification Treatment Program Among Minority Groups In A Texas Hospital, Alberto Coustasse, Karan P. Singh, Fernando M. Trevino

Management Faculty Research

The authors analyzed ethnic/racial disparities in healthcare access and length of stay from a defined population of individuals seeking medical detoxification services at a hospital in Texas. Results indicated Blacks were more likely to be insured compared with Whites, mostly by public insurance, but this did not hold for Hispanics, who were about three times more likely to be uninsured compared with Blacks. In addition, the authors observed lower median of length of stay in the Medicaid category among Hispanics. These results can be explained by aggressive case management, sociocultural barriers, or discriminatory practices, both intentional and unintentional.

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