Report: Healthcare Needs to Diversify Workforce to Get Rid of Racial Inequalities by Associated Press June 26, 2024 Racial and ethnic inequities in healthcare are found in every state in the U.S. despite the passage of legislation intended to improve health outcomes for minorities and increased awareness of healthcare disparities over the past two […]
For a Solidarity State By Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor June 2, 2024 On a summer afternoon in 1966, an estimated six thousand welfare recipients rallied around the United States in twenty-five cities. Children in tow, the women held forth in public squares, marched on state capitols, and occupied local welfare offices as part
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Critiquing Project 2025 By Jim Kahn June 26, 2024 Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”, released in April, threatens to replace modern American values with a retrograde vision. This 900-page action plan proposes a rapid, broad, and enduring transformation. It lays out sweeping policy shifts that favor the wealthy and undermine support
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California voters will decide who wins on health care tax: Gavin Newsom or doctors By Kristen Hwang (CalMatters) July 5, 2024 A two-year cash influx or a long-term investment? Come November it will be up to California voters whether to lock billions of special tax dollars into Medi-Cal — the state’s health insurance program
Viewpoint: The pediatrician pipeline is shrinking By Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) July 3rd, 2024 Fewer medical school students are entering pediatric residencies after graduation, marking a troubling trend that could exacerbate the current shortage of pediatricians, Aaron Carroll, MD, wrote in a July 1 op-ed for The New York Times. Dr. Carroll, a pediatrician
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