New Orleans Every time we think we might be surprised at the avarice of major financial institutions, we are reminded that in the real world, there are no limits either to greed or the willingness for banks to rip off anyone available including preying on desperate, poor families. More sickening evidence was available in a …
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Enforcing Adequate Medicaid Cover for the Poor
New Orleans Reading the report was one of those Sports Center “come on, man!” moments. This couldn’t be true. The top Democratic were filing an amicus curia (friend of the court) brief with the Supreme Court to try to overturn the Obama Administration’s efforts to allow cutting the standards of health protection under Medicaid for …
Stress and Bad Health in Poor Communities
Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting. Plane loads of lawyers …