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Librarians Gain Protections in Some States As Book Bans Soar
Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and conservative activists demanding that certain books — often about race, gender and sexuality — be removed from the shelves. In the past year, Grant and her colleagues in the Ewing Public Schools just north of Trenton…
Medical Debt Will Be Erased From Credit Reports for All Americans Under New Federal Rule
Medical debt is the largest source of debt in collection in the United States, and it’s more likely to be held by women, people with disabilities and Black Americans. By Jennifer Gerson, Darreonna Davis Originally published by The 19th Medical debt will be removed from consumer credit reports for all Americans under a final…
Bird Flu Could Be ‘One Pig Away’ From ‘A Big Threat’ Pathologists Say
By Cami Koons Pathologists said in a press conference Friday they are encouraged by laboratory preparedness for a potential outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, but are worried about the number of infected animals and the ability of the virus to mutate.  The College of American Pathologists press conference followed a week of new…
Community Solar Buying Programs Provide Discounts and Protections to Homeowners, but Worry Some Companies
Some solar installers say bulk markdowns will negatively affect employee pay and company stability; others believe group-purchasing arrangements will encourage competition. By Tim Drugan December 16, 2024 This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Solar energy…
Want To Fix Food Deserts and Lower Food Prices? Enforce Antitrust Law, Activist Says
By Marty Schladen For now, anyway, grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons aren’t going to merge into a single grocery megagiant to confront Walmart, another megagiant. But in many ways, the damage caused by 40 years of non-enforcement of relevant antitrust law is already done, said Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance…
Insurance Companies Use Shady Doctors to Deny Care, Investigation Finds
By Edward Lynn Mid-America Publishing In a New Orleans courtroom in April, federal appeals court judges questioned United Healthcare’s (UHC) denial of coverage for 15-year-old Emily Dwyer, whose anorexia was so severe that she had required residential treatment, for which she appeared wearing her 8 year old sister’s pants. But just 5 months later, doctors…
Biden Administration Unveils Plan To Cover Weight Loss Meds Under Medicare, Medicaid
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 26, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday it’s reinterpreting federal law to allow Medicare and Medicaid patients access to anti-obesity medications to reduce their weight over the long term. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s proposed rule, which the Trump administration would need to finalize before…
Trump taps Project 2025 co-author to lead White House budget office
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 22, 2024 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday invited Russell Vought to once again run the White House budget office, though it wasn’t entirely clear how the role will mesh with the government staffing and funding cuts envisioned by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. “Russ knows exactly…
NASA plans to put rail system on Moon by 2030
(Photo by Mike Petrucci via Unsplash) By Dean Murray via SWNS America is set to put a railway on the Moon by 2030. NASA has announced they are funding a rail system to support daily operations of a sustainable lunar base. Dubbed FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a Track), the project has this month been selected…
Tesla layoffs now an ongoing “bloodbath”
Tesla’s layoffs expanded over the weekend with staff involved in software, service and engineering all reporting that they’d gotten their pink slips. The 10 percent workforce reduction announced earlier by CEO Elon Musk is, Electrek’s Fred Lambert writes, closing in on 20 percent. The layoffs were expected after CEO Elon Musk made an example of Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s former…