Report on County's Needs Shows Obesity, Workforce Friction
"Two-thirds of our county is either overweight or obese," the county's health officer said.
A state of the county report based on focus group testing and the U.S. Census concluded that the most pressing needs in Anne Arundel County are affordable housing, transportation and quality child care. Anne Arundel County's 2012 Needs Assessment Report, titled Poverty Amongst Plenty IV, was recently released by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County. A summary of the report's findings shows that population growth in Anne Arundel County has slowed since the 1970s and 1980s, with only a 10 percent increase since 2000, and obesity is growing—29 percent of all adults are obese and 38 percent are overweight. When addressing the Anne Arundel County Council in October, Health Department Officer Dr. Angela M. Wakhweya urged it to lead by…
Shannon
11:48 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
The fact is that Maryland in general manages money wrong, and we spend more money on welfare for people that are addicted to drugs, don't take care of their children, are illegal immigrants that work under the table, and to be really honest if you are a white single mother and you walk into the Welfare Office to seek assistance, you are asked by the DHS workers why you aren't working. After my … more ›