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Medi-Cal Expands Services to Provide More Help to Unhoused Californians
by CBM NEWSWIRE May 8, 2024 Edward Henderson | California Black Media (CBM) – Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, is currently transforming to expand coverage for unhoused and at-risk individuals across the state. The rollout for these changes began on Jan. 1, 2022. New programs include rental and deposit aid, recuperative housing, rehabilitation and sobering centers during the…
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The UN has a ‘list of shame’ for those who harm children in war – but who is missing?
By Samantha Holmes On May 10, 2024 Children are the primary victims of war. They are routinely recruited, abducted, raped and buried under rubble. For children lucky enough to survive, the effects of war vibrate throughout their life long after the bombs stop falling. The UN holds perpetrators of harm against children during war accountable…
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Calls for sustained peace efforts in Yemen as cholera outbreak worsens
By United Nations On May 13, 2024 Martin Griffiths, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, stressed the critical need for sustained peace efforts during a briefing to Security Council ambassadors. “The conflict in Yemen has been the key driver of humanitarian needs. It has deeply undercut the country’s economy, decimated half of its health facilities, displaced millions of people…
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In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock
By Débora Rey On May 12, 2024 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the inclusion of transgender people in the work force — unprecedented in Latin America expect in neighboring Uruguay — pulled her from the capital’s…
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Gov. Abbott directs universities, colleges to ignore Biden’s Title IX update
By Craig Huber On May 8, 2024 AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has doubled down on his promise in late April that the state will ignore the Biden administration’s update to Title IX. On Wednesday, he reported he sent a letter directing public university systems and community colleges not to comply and to not implement any new system-wide policy…
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More GOP states challenge federal rules protecting transgender students
By Andrew DeMillio On May 7, 2024 Seven more Republican-led states sued Tuesday to challenge a new federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools. Republican plaintiffs call the effort to fold protection for transgender students under the 1972 Title IX law unconstitutional. The lawsuits filed in federal courts in…
Read MoreArizona’s now-repealed abortion ban serves as a cautionary tale for reproductive health care across the US
By Swapna Reddy, Arizona State University On May 8, 2024 (THE CONVERSATION) When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9, 2024, that the state’s Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions was enforceable, it brought into stark reality the potential impacts of leaving reproductive rights up to the states to regulate, and the related consequences…
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Abortion, civil rights top issues Americans would risk arrest to protest: Poll
By Lauren Sforza On May 8th, 2024 The latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll found Americans were evenly split when asked if they would risk arrest for any political issue, 48 percent to 48 percent. About 8.3 percent of respondents listed women’s rights and the right to an abortion when asked what political issue, if any, they would risk…
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Stitt executive order ends decades-old Oklahoma women’s leadership program
By Barbara Hoberock of Oklahoma Voice On May 6, 2024 A University of Oklahoma program that has trained hundreds of female leaders will shutter because of a gubernatorial executive order that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The National Education for Women’s Leadership program, which started more than 20 years ago, will end because of…
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