Medicare fraud: Obama administration brings enforcement into the 21st century

Opened 10 months ago by the nonprofit Illumination Foundation, the Recuperative Care Center in Los Angeles has 20 motel beds where homeless patients with acute illnesses or injuries recover after being released from local hospitals.

The program and others like it dramatically reduce costly hospital stays and emergency room visits — often funded by taxpayers — and give hospitals a place to safely release patients without leaving them on the streets.

"Hospitals discharge patients with instructions to rest, eat well, keep wounds clean and take medications," said Sabrina Edgington, a program specialist at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, an organization of providers. "When you are on the street, it is virtually impossible."

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GoodGuide--an iPhone app provides ethical and environmental information for products

GoodGuide--an iPhone app and website that serves up detailed information about the ethical and environmental impact of personal care products, food, household items, apparel, and more--has long acted as a resource for conscious consumers. But for many people, the hassle of visiting a website or checking an app every time they want to try a new brand of deodorant is a bit too much. That's why GoodGuide just released its "Transparency Toolbar," a Firefox and Google Chrome add-on that only pops up when users are browsing shopping websites.

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Kyes Stevens and her prison arts project change women's lives

Kyes Stevens grew up nearby in the small rural town of Auburn before decamping to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., where she eventually earned a master's degree in poetry.

She returned to Alabama after graduation, and spent a few months helping to renovate local homes for $10 an hour. In 2002, with the help of a friend, she received a grant to teach in a prison in Talladega, Ala.

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