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Health Care Delivery is Worth a Policy Debate, But Senate Bill Is Not That
TrahantReports.com, Commentary, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
In the current bill, the House and the Senate are trying to legislate a huge tax cut while destroying Medicaid.
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Health Care Delivery is Worth a Policy Debate, But Sena…
Health Care Delivery is Worth a Policy Debate, But Senate Bill Is Not That
TrahantReports.com, Commentary, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
In the current bill, the House and the Senate are trying to legislate a huge tax cut while destroying Medicaid.
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A New Farmworker Union Is Born In the Pacific Northwest
A New Farmworker Union Is Born In the Pacific Northwest
The American Prospect, News Feature, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
Indigenous Oaxacan farmworkers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest.
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More Than 100 Federal Agencies Fail to Report Hate Crim…
More Than 100 Federal Agencies Fail to Report Hate Crimes to the FBI’…
ProPublica, News Report, Posted: Jun 23, 2017
The FBI has identified at least 120 federal agencies that aren't uploading information to the database in violation of a longstanding legal mandate.
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Health Care Rally in San Francisco Almost Turns Deadly
Health Care Rally in San Francisco Almost Turns Deadly
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
A peaceful rally to ensure the health care of U.S. residents almost turned deadly earlier today when a motorcyclist tried to plow into participants.
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GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess
GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
Amid the scoreboard coverage of the GOP health bill, historians remind us of how the unique U.S. system became such an insurance-based mess.
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The Opioid Crisis in Black and White
The Opioid Crisis in Black and White
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered U.S. attorneys to get tough on drug crimes. He wasn't talking about white addicts, whom the opioid crisis affects the mos…
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Poll Shows ACA Enjoys Robust Support Among Californians
Poll Shows ACA Enjoys Robust Support Among Californians
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
Support for the Affordable Care Act has always been strong in the Golden State but never stronger than it is now.
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The Secret Republican Health Care Plan: Cutting Taxes a…
The Secret Republican Health Care Plan: Cutting Taxes and Destroying Medica…
Indian Country, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 19, 2017
How to destroy the economy with 50 votes. What's in that bill? That won't be known until it's time to vote.
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Cuts to Medicaid Devastating for Rural Kids
Cuts to Medicaid Devastating for Rural Kids
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 16, 2017
House Republicans' threatened cuts to Medicaid would be devastating for children living in rural areas, according to a new study by researchers at Georgetown Un…
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Police Misconduct Payouts Continue to Break the Bank in…
Police Misconduct Payouts Continue to Break the Bank in Chicago
Chicago Reporter, News Report, Posted: Jun 14, 2017
Chicago's costly record of police misconduct settlements showed no signs of tapering off in 2016, with the city continuing to pay an average of more than one ev…
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Beyond Reducing Prison Population, Can Prop. 47 Reduce…
Beyond Reducing Prison Population, Can Prop. 47 Reduce Crime?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 13, 2017
The question now: how to go beyond sentencing reform and do the work of making communities safer and the families within them stronger.
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‘Ellis Island of the South’ - Atlanta Coali…
‘Ellis Island of the South’ - Atlanta Coalition Helps Immigrant…
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 12, 2017
Atlanta has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country. A new coalition is helping them become U.S. citizens.
$700 Billion Tax Cut for the Wealthy and the Damage to American Health
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
Ten times more Americans will die from the passage of the Senate Health Care Bill than from terrorist attacks on American soil in the l…
Google and the Equal Justice Initiative Launch Website About the Lynching of African Americans
NorthStar News Today, News Report, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
Organizers say the project is meant to foster an honest discussion about our history of racial injustice and its implications for addre…
The Need to Fundamentally Recast the Healthcare Debate?
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP), Commentary, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
The debate over the Republican Party's campaign to repeal Obamacare has focused mostly on the vote counting and less on the specifics o…
Vietnamese Blogger Stripped of Citizenship and Expelled
Vietnam Right Now, News Report, Posted: Jun 25, 2017
This is thought to be the first time, however, that they have forcibly stripped a government critic of his Vietnamese nationality.
Q&A: UC President Is Bullish on California’s Future, and the Next Generation
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jun 22, 2017
"California continues to move forward. It's not mired in the past," says UC President Janet Napolitano.
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GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
New ‘Poor People’s’ Leader: Anti-Voter Laws Worse Than Russian Meddling
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 12, 2017
THE BLESSING SCAM: A Con Returns to Haunt Chinese Community
Sing Tao Daily/New America Media , News Report, Posted: Jun 02, 2017
Immigration
A Safer BART for All
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jun 19, 2017
California Leading the Way in Immigration Detention Reform with Budget Bill
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 19, 2017
‘Ellis Island of the South’ - Atlanta Coalition Helps Immigrants Naturalize
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 12, 2017
Ethnic Media Headlines
India, U.S. Vow to Fight Terror, Bo…
WASHINGTON– India and the U.S. June 26 reiterated their commitment t…
Lawmakers Press Citizens to Fight t…
A health care forum Saturday in Bowie, Maryland, also became a rally to en…
City of St. Anthony, Minn., Reache…
The city of St. Anthony, Minn., will avoid a wrongful death lawsuit filed …
Onondaga Nation Members Remove Chil…
The Onondaga Nation has asked the New York State Department of Education t…
China Vexed by Vietnamese Diplomacy
Vietnam’s drive for international support in the South China Sea is …
From Prison to Honors UCLA Graduate
When UCLA political science graduate James Anderson crosses the commenceme…
The Slants Win Huge U.S. Supreme Co…
The Asian American rock band The Slants are playing a happy tune after wi…
The Ku Klux Klan's Big Recruiting W…
As neo-Nazis, Confederate leagues, “alt-right” fight clubs and…
22-Year-Old Va. Man Charged with Mu…
Authorities said on Monday that the death of a Virginia Muslim teen, who t…
Education Department Invites LGBT H…
The Education Department has once again sent the message that it is not in…
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Autopsy: Phillips Shot 11 Times, Not 10, Mortal He…
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Detroit Doctor Allegedly Paid by Mosque to Perform…
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Indiana Muslim Community Denounces Controversial B…
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Supporters of Muslim-Americans Outnumber Muslim Ha…
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Tracking Hate: Bigotry, Stress, More Evident at Ch…
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CSUC Student Newspaper Sparks Hate Speech Debate
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Farmers Face Labor Shortages Thanks to Trump
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Spotting and Avoiding Scams: An Open Discussion in…
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Trump Administration Takes on Obama’s Educat…
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It Will Take More Than Comey's Testimony to Sink T…
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Ignored by Trump: Why Are We Still Celebrating As…
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More Black and Latino Parents See Racial Inequiti…
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"In Guatemala There Is a Lot of Violence Against C…
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Trump Happy on Trade - For Now
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California Schools Respond to Students' Fears of T…
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THE BLESSING SCAM: The Ugly Fraud Haunting Older C…
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“We Count for Nothing:” Immigrant Wo…
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Most Elders Want to Stay at Homes, But Is That Wha…
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Profile in Old Age: Family, Friends and Purpose Fe…
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Sergio Bendixen: Pioneer of Multilingual Polling
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Marking Ramadan in the Era of Trump
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Femmigrants - A New Online Platform for Women Immi…
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Trump to the ‘Rescue’ in Saudi Arabia…
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City Meets Deadline for Removing Four Confederate-…
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Applying for Citizenship: I Should Have Done It So…