healthcare
A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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Inadequate pay, health care cutoff push NIH researchers to picket
October 31, 2024Lagging pay in high-cost area, ending healthcare coverage, and sexual harassment push workers to act.
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Ohio’s Issue 1 abortion referendum – A voter’s guide
October 20, 2023Reproductive rights are on the ballot this November.
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Record national strike wave swells as 300,000 hit the picket lines
October 5, 2023UAW strike impact spreads as biggest health care walkout in nation’s history gets underway.
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Ill harvest: In rural California, farmworkers fend for themselves for health care
December 9, 2022Where government and health care institutions are absent, some communities turn to grassroots action.
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