Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. As the…
Navajo leaders outraged after an Indigenous student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation
A school official at Farmington High School speaks with graduate Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before taking away her personalized graduation cap and…
Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, in November 2023. States with the…
Troubling signs at Healey’s transportation funding task force
EARLIER THIS YEAR, a Massachusetts governor finally decided to stop kicking the transportation funding question into the long grass. Many of us cheered on the creation of a task force…
Biden celebrates ‘the power of an education’ on Brown v. Board 70th anniversary
A section of the Brown v. Board mural is seen on April 2, 2024, at the Kansas Statehouse. The mural appears outside the former Kansas Supreme Court room where 11…
Vice President Harris coming to Philadelphia to speak at SEIU convention
Vice President Kamala Harris, center, laughs with crews working with the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to replace a lead water line on Lakewood Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Elliott neighborhood on…
Lawmakers Weigh Sexual Assault Evidence Measure That Biden And Schumer Once Railed Against
“I am not ‘Mr. Soft on Crime,’” protested Joe Biden on the floor of the US Senate. “But this is crazy.” It was 1994. Republicans had proposed an amendment to…
Dog bites and shark week: Whitmer talks about how to run a tough campaign in 2024
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer talks about how to campaign at a Fight Like Hell PAC training in East Lansing, Michigan on May 17, 2024. (Photo: Anna Liz Nichols) What do candidates…
Workers at Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance reject union after months-long campaign
Supporters listen as UAW President Shawn Fain speaks at a press conference at the UAW Local 112 office on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Coaling, Alabama. Local Mercedes-Benz workers in…
Farm bill text released in U.S. House, setting up fight with Senate
A farmer harvests corn near Slater, Iowa on Oct. 17, 2020.(Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch) WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Agriculture Committee Friday released the draft bill text of the long-awaited…