New S.N.A.P Rules
White House to Tighten Work Requirements for Food-Stamp Aid The Trump administration is set to tighten work requirements for recipients of federal food aid, potentially rendering hundreds of thousands of…
SNAP Receipents Troubled Services
Spoiled food, drug deals gone wrong: SNAP recipients want change at corner stores EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The parking lot was dark when Marie Franklin and her husband, Sam,…
Traveling – Beware of Unsafe Bridges
The busiest most structurally deficient bridge in every US state President Trump's plan for an overhauled American infrastructure still has yet to be passed. Some of the most highly traveled…
Health Care – Amazon Way
Here’s how Amazon employees get healthcare through a new app — a glimpse of the future of medicine Amazon has now launched its Amazon Care app into major app stores…
HealthCare From A Surgeon Viewpoint
A surgeon talks about why our healthcare is broken and how to fix it You know the old expression, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”…
Poor Take It On Chin
'Inflation Inequality' In an era of wild inequality, sputtering wages, and rising rents and health-care costs, the American working class has had one consistent financial respite: “stuff,” broadly defined, is…
Dirty Air Cont.
Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse Comparison to the Nation: By the 1960s, the American public was growing apprehensive about the dense smog created…
Dirty Air
Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse ST. GABRIEL, La. — Over a half-century, Hazel Schexnayder saw this riverside hamlet transformed from a collection of…
Medicaid Expansion Not For All
Residents suffer as Mississippi and 13 other states debate Medicaid expansion HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. — Darlene Velasco can’t afford to treat her Type 2 diabetes. She doesn’t make enough money…
Throat Cancer Research
Mayo Clinic: Increasing incidence of throat cancer related to HPV We know that HPV can cause cervical cancer, but recently I’ve heard it also can also cause other forms of…