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Billions in Rural Health Care Funding Hinge on States Passing Trump-Backed Policies
“The Trump administration offered states a deal: pledge to enact White House-favored policies for a chance to win a bigger share of the $50 billion aimed at transforming the nation’s struggling rural health care systems.
Can Opportunity Zones Ever Meet Their Poverty-Fighting Promise?
“Douglas MacArthur famously told us that “old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” When it comes to urban reform schemes, that adage is about half right. They don’t die, but they don’t fade away either. They just change their names.
Americans Are Buckling Under Medical Bills And It Could Get Worse
“Charities that help people cover their medical bills say they’re seeing an alarming increase in requests for help.
When Medicaid Cuts Hit, Urban Hospitals Could Be Hit Hardest
When The Employed Are Pushed Into Homelessness
“In Atlanta, journalist Brian Goldstone introduces us to the intersection of Memorial Drive and Candler Road – the threshold of two neighborhoods. On one side: a liberal arts college and cafés. “And you cross over, and it’s dialysis centers, it’s liquor stores, it’s payday lenders,” he said. “Other areas of Atlanta are booming, but this area sort of stayed stuck in this period of decline. … The poor are out here on these peripheral areas.”
Reps. Meng, Maloy Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Curb Period Poverty
Poverty Spikes in The Land of The Tech Billionaires
“SAN FRANCISCO — It takes Tazo Stuart-Riascos 28,000 steps per day to make ends meet in one of America’s most unaffordable places.
A North Carolina Medicaid Program Worked on Every Level—And Got Killed
“In early 2023, Rebecca Smith was two months sober and looking for help. Her addiction to methamphetamines had cost her custody of her children, and she’d moved back home to Graham County, North Carolina, to rebuild her life. High cholesterol and heart problems ran in her family, and during her struggle with addiction she had been diagnosed with diabetes. She knew that staying sober would require taking better care of herself.
Ohio Bill Would Make 'Success Sequence' Required Learning
“COLUMBUS, Ohio — State senators advanced a bill that would require students in grades 6-12 to learn a three-pronged theory that states that people who complete at least a high school education, work full time and marry before having children are less likely to live in poverty in adulthood.
