US News & World Report (12/9) reports that the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has issued its State Mental Health Legislation report for 2014, which points out that this year, “Congress did not pass mental health care reforms and states slowed in their response to the issue.” The report, which analyzed “state spending on mental health and looks at what legislation states passed to address mental illness disparities,” revealed that even “though 27 states and the District of Columbia increased funding in 2014, this was a lower total than in 2013, when 37 states and the District of Columbia increased funding after three straight years of cuts.”
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— “Two Years After Sandy Hook: Mental Health Funding Still Lags,” Kimberly Leonard, US News & World Report, December 9, 2014.