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In 2023, similar to previous years, 2,317 “random digitl dial” phone and web surveys were completed by adults randomly selected from across the state, in Spanish or English, with an intentional oversample of Black and Latinx residents. For the third year in a row, to ensure that Rhode Islanders who do not speak English at home […]

Universal health care remains an unrealized dream for the United States. But in some parts of the country, the dream has drawn closer to a reality in the 13 years since the Affordable Care Act passed. Overall, the number of uninsured Americans has fallen from 46.5 million in 2010, the year President Barack Obama signed […]

Black Americans Show More Foster Care Knowledge, Adoption Engagement and Involvement in Programs with Children in Foster Care than Americans of Other Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds.  WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — In a new report, Americans’ Views of U.S. Foster Care: Elevating Black Americans’ Perspectives and Experiences, Kidsave and Gallup examine how the American public […]

The Chicago City Council approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2023 spending plan on Wednesday after a debate shaped by an intense focus on the amount of money the city expects to spend on housing, feeding and caring for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border. The budget, which takes […]

MONTGOMERY, AL – Federal investigators have recovered $532,842 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Montgomery home healthcare business that misclassified 67 employees as independent contractors, and incurred overtime wage violations as a result. U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Jennings Professional Services, an in-home, day and overnight healthcare provider, paid the […]

Marty Chakoian, a prostate patient advocate with Fred Hutch’s Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE, asked if the U.S. is spending too much money on the wrong things (excessive testing, unnecessary therapies, a bloated health care system) or “Are we spending it on the right things and they just cost more now, like prescription drugs?” Yabroff […]

Differences in health care expenditures between Black and white adults vary substantially with the local level of racial and economic integration, and tend to be low or nonexistent in highly integrated communities, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For their study, the researchers compared health […]

[1/2]Transgender rights activist waves a transgender flag as they protest the killings of transgender women this year, at a rally in Washington Square Park in New York, U.S., May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Demetrius Freeman/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

A medical clinic displays signs in Spanish and English in Huntington Park, California, in December 2020. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Hispanic Americans have long faced health care challenges in the United States, including lower health insurance rates and less access to preventative care. Language and cultural barriers, as well as higher levels […]

Canada’s unions are marking the first International Day of Care with a call for greater investment in improved wages and working conditions for care workers.  We all need care at some point in our lives. Our jobs, our families and our economy depend on having our care needs met. In Canada, nearly 1 in 5 […]


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