A new bill filed in Congress seeks to include “fragile health,” pregnancy, nursing, and old age as grounds to allow the release of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) who are unable to post bail due to ...

My dad is a poor, sick immigrant. It didn’t take a pandemic to put him in peril. I fear he will die alone from the cancer that ravaged him before anyone noticed. April 16, 2020.

People in poor counties died of COVID-19 at two times the rate of people in wealthier counties. Experts said the pandemic has highlighted long-standing racial disparities, including poor access to ...

The Speak Out column highlights readers' concerns on Trump's budget cuts, high living costs, and political tensions. Criticism focuses on potential impacts on social programs and the erosion of ...

Once, a sick day was just that — a day away from work to focus on recovery (or at least pretend to: Think “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”). But in recent years, it has become something murkier ...

Thanks to a series of destructive government policies and incentives, a health care crisis has been steadily building in America for a generation or two. But the release yesterday of the Kaiser ...

Unpaid Sick Leave Diminishing for Poor Half of working Americans don't receive a sick day. For low-wage workers, one out of every four workers doesn't get a sick day.

Being Poor and Sick Should Not be a Crime. By Dr. Sylisa Lambert-Woodard. Wednesday, June 5, 2024 I have been watching other communities nationwide struggling with how to address homelessness.

But poor sick leave policymaking, and hostile work environments, are playing a role as well. (Eliza Anderson, Deseret News) Save Story ...

The Poor and the Sick What Cholera and Ebola Have in Common Fran Quigley October 19, 2014 . A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, ...