Word to the mother(tongue): language access and Medicaid for Limited English Proficient migrants

Table 1 1970 characteristics

	Has Medicaid access-improving language access laws^a	No Medicaid access-improving language access laws	Difference (has-no)
% foreign-born	0.0449	0.0412	0.0037
% born in non-English speaking country	0.0348	0.029	0.0058
% with English as mother tongue	0.9016	0.9029	− 0.0013
Employed-to-unemployed ratio	23.312	23.278	0.034
Total family income	10,254.62	10,245.18	9.44
Governor’s party	1.642	1.609	0.033

Notes: Democrat = 1, Republican = 2 for “Governor’s party”
^aIncludes four states whose date of passage could not be found. There is no statistically significant difference between the means for all the variables