DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-11-23 Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than $1 an Hour. The State Says It’s Fine If That Never Changes. by Madison Hopkins, The Kansas City Beacon ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One weekday morning […]
2022-11-13 Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch Aaron Bolton COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. — On a recent rainy afternoon in this small town just outside Glacier National Park, Lisa Beaty and Kim Hilton were preparing to sell most of their belongings before moving out of […]
2022-11-12 Abortion Issue Helps Limit Democrats’ Losses in Midterms Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Republicans are likely to take control of one or both houses of Congress when all the votes are counted, but Democrats on Wednesday were celebrating after their party defied expectations of substantial losses in the midterm election. The backlash […]
Shining Light on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes (StatePoint) Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death in U.S. adults aged 65 or older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The economic impact of falls is immense, with fatal falls estimated to cost $754 million and nonfatal falls $50 […]
2022-10-26 EPA Calls Out Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Lylla Younes, Grist ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Louisiana must examine how polluters imperil the health of Black residents, the Environmental Protection […]
2022-10-12 If You’re Worried About the Environment, Consider Being Composted When You Die Bernard J. Wolfson Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die? If you feel the way I do, the answer is neither. I cringe at the thought of my body burning up at well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit […]
2022-10-03 Sports Programs in States in Northern Climes Face a New Opponent: Scorching Septembers Aaron Bolton BIGFORK, Mont. — On a recent afternoon, it was a crisp 70 degrees on the football field at the high school in this northwestern Montana community less than 200 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Vikings head […]
2022-09-27 ‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework Failure to complete homework leaves students in the lurch. MoMorad via Getty Images Jessica Calarco, Indiana University and Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school on the […]
2022-09-25 Shift in Child Hospice Care Is a Lifeline for Parents Seeking a Measure of Comfort and Hope Bernard J. Wolfson POMONA, Calif. — When you first meet 17-month-old Aaron Martinez, it’s not obvious that something is catastrophically wrong. What you see is a beautiful little boy with smooth, lustrous skin, an abundance […]
2022-09-24 Buy and Bust: After Platinum Health Took Control of Noble Sites, All Hospital Workers Were Fired Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News The news, under Noble Health letterhead, arrived at 5:05 p.m. on a Friday, with the subject line: “Urgent Notice.” Audrain Community Hospital, Paul Huemann’s workplace of 32 years, was letting […]